HC Deb 20 January 1992 vol 202 c20W
Mr. Flynn

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence whether he will make it his policy to give the military commanders of each state in the Commonwealth of Independent States a full inventory of United Kingdom nuclear weapons by age, deployment status and location in exchange for comparable information from the CIS.

Mr. Archie Hamilton

Successive Governments have taken the view that nuclear deterrence would not be served by divulging information of this kind.