§ Mr. DouglasTo ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will make a statement on the implications of the recent experiment on the Black sea, in which short-range passive methods were used to supplement long-range detectors to verify the presence of nuclear weapons on board surface ships for the policy by successive United Kingdom Governments neither to confirm or deny the presence of such weapons on board United Kingdom vessels.
§ Mr. Archie HamiltonThere are no implications for our policy neither to confirm nor to deny the presence of nuclear weapons in particular ships at particular times.