HC Deb 14 November 1989 vol 160 c188W
Mr. Flynn

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence if, following the decision of the United States Defence Intelligence Agency to reduce its estimate of the Soviet Union stockpile of chemical weapon agent from 300,000 tonnes to less than 75,000 tonnes, he will make it his policy to review Her Majesty's Government's own assessment of this data; and if he will publish any resulting revision in the estimate in theOfficial Report.

Mr. Archie Hamilton

The Government's position regarding the size of Soviet stocks of chemical weapons remains as expressed in paragraphs 219–220 of the Statement on Defence Estimates 1989 (Cm. 675–I).