HC Deb 28 November 1990 vol 181 c445W
Mr. Cohen

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what is his Department's latest assessment of the size of the Soviet Union's stockpile of chemical weapons, in terms of quantity of chemical agents.

Mr. Archie Hamilton

We continue to assess that the Soviet stockpile of chemical warfare agents is several times greater than the figure of 50,000 tonnes declared by the Soviets themselves in 1987.