HC Deb 27 October 1993 vol 230 cc699-700W
Mr. Redmond

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will list by year since 1965 the number of nuclear bomb tests that have been carried out by his Department.

Mr. Aitken

The United Kingdom has conducted the following numbers of nuclear tests since 1965:

Number
1965 1
1966 0
1967 0
1968 0
1969 0
1970 0
1971 0

Number
1972 0
1973 0
1974 1
1975 0
1976 1
1977 0
1978 2
1979 1
1980 3
1981 1
1982 1
1983 1
1984 2
1985 1
1986 1
1987 1
1988 0
1989 1
1990 1
1991 1
1992 0
1993 0