HC Deb 14 July 1997 vol 298 c51W
16. Ms Christine Russell

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will make a statement on the action taken by his Department in respect of anti-personnel land mines. [6522]

Mr. George Robertson

On 21 May we announced that we would ban all trade in anti-personnel land mines involving the United Kingdom—that is, their import, export, transfer and manufacture. We also introduced a complete moratorium on their operational use. We will phase out our stocks of such land mines by 2005 at the latest.