§ Mr. CashTo ask the Secretary of State for Defence what assessment he has made of the present and future expenditure implications of duplication of facilities and activities of the WEU and NATO.
§ Mr. Archie HamiltonThe development of WEU as a means to strengthen the European pillar of Atlantic alliance will be based on the principle of complementarity between the facilities and activities of NATO and WEU so duplication should be avoided. In this context, WEU's 81W Petersberg declaration of June 1992 made it clear that WEU would have no permanent forces or headquarters of its own.