§ 122. Mr. Harry GreenwayTo ask the Secretary of State for Defence what are the respective levels of(a) conventional, (b) nuclear and (c) chemical weapons between the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation and the Warsaw pact countries; and if he will make a statement.
§ Mr. Archie HamiltonIn respect of information on conventional and nuclear force levels, I refer my hon. Friend to the answer that I gave him on 29 November 1988 at columns226–27. The broad assessment that I gave then has not changed. No equivalent information is available on chemical weapons, but it is clear that the Soviet Union is the world's largest holder of stock of such weapons, even from the levels of stocks which the Soviet Union has acknowledged possessing, which are, however, significantly below western estimates of the total Soviet stockpile.