HC Deb 08 March 1990 vol 168 c782W
Mr. Ieuan Wyn Jones

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if, pursuant to his reply to the hon. Member for Ynys Môn,Official Report, 28 February, column 210, he will set out the dates on which the European Political Co-operation Committee's working group on nuclear non-proliferation met in each year since 1985.

Mr. Waldegrave

The working group on non-proliferation met on the following dates:

  • 7–8 February 1985
  • 9–10 May 1985
  • 15–16 October 1985
  • 7–8 November 1985
  • 26–27 March1986
  • 17–18 June 1986
  • 8–9 September 1986
  • 6–7 November 1986
  • 5–6 February1987
  • 21–22 May 1987
  • 10–11 September 1987
  • 18–19 November 1987
  • 18–19 February 1988
  • 19–20 May 1988
  • 14 September 1988
  • 12 December 1988
  • 16 February 1989
  • 26 May 1989
  • 8 September 1989
  • 15 December 1989
  • 31 January–1 February 1990

Mr. Ieuan Wyn Jones

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if, pursuant to his reply to the hon. Member for Ynys Môn,Official Report, 28 February, column 210, on grant in aid provision for non-proliferation matters, he will set out the specific purposes to which he refers for which funding has been made available to the programme for promoting nuclear non-proliferation.

Mr. Waldegrave

Funding has been made available to the programme for promoting nuclear non-proliferation (PPNN) to meet part of the cost of a conference on issues likely to arise during the 1990 non-proliferation treaty review conference, and to assist with the production of documentation on the non-proliferation regime.