HC Deb 28 February 1991 vol 186 c580W
Mr. Cryer

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs whether Her Majesty's Government have made any assessment of Iraqi violations of its non-proliferation treaty commitments.

Mr. Lennox-Boyd

There was clear evidence that, before the outbreak of hostilities, Iraq was trying to develop a nuclear capability in breach of its undertaking not to manufacture or otherwise acquire nuclear weapons and not to seek any assistance whatsoever to do so.