§ Lord Jenkins of Putneyasked Her Majesty's Government:
Whether NATO and Soviet missiles are still targeted on assumptions of enmity and if so whether they are prepared to consider mutually supervised detargeting of ballistics as a stage towards general nuclear disarmament.
§ The Minister of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office (Lord Brabazon of Tara)It has always been the practice of successive governments not to discuss targeting matters, for reasons of security.