§ Mr. StrangTo ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the answer to the hon Member for Brent, East (Mr. Livingstone),Official Report, 11 June, column 41, if he will set out the restrictions placed on the deployment of United Kingdom nuclear-armed vessels when (a) in the territorial sea, and (b) in internal waters of (i) the Falkland Islands, (ii) South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands, (iii) the Cayman Islands, (iv) the Turks and Caicos Islands, (v) the British Virgin Islands and (vi) Anguilla and Montserrat.
§ Mr. Archie HamiltonThe United Kingdom at all times complies with its obligation under the treaty of Tlatelolco not to deploy nuclear weapons in territories, including territorial and internal waters, which lie within the treaty's zone of application. It remains, however, our invariable practice to neither confirm nor deny the presence of nuclear weapons on board particular ships at particular times.