§ Mr. BoyesTo ask the Secretary of State for Defence what impact his announcement of the cessation of routine carriage of tactical nuclear weapons on Royal Navy ships will have on his policy of neither confirming nor denying the presence of nuclear weapons on those vessels.
§ Mr. Archie HamiltonThe Secretary of State announced in September that our ships will no longer carry tactical nuclear weapons in normal circumstances. It remains the Government's policy neither to confirm nor to deny the presence of nuclear weapons in specific locations at specific times.
§ Mr. FlynnTo ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will make it his policy to make public details of correspondence sent to his Department critical of nuclear weapons in cases where the authors make explicit their willingness for such disclosure.
§ Mr. Archie HamiltonNo.