§ Lord Kennetasked Her Majesty's Government:
What information they have about the CIA's report some weeks ago of a Russian nuclear weapons test in the Arctic.
§ The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office (Baroness Symons of Vernham Dean)It is for individual governments to announce their own assessments. We believe that the seismic event in the Kara Sea in northern Russia on 16 August was an earthquake measuring about four on the Richter Scale.