§ Lord Juddasked Her Majesty's Government:
Whether they endorse the conclusions of the Carnegie Commission on Preventing Deadly Conflict with regard to nuclear weapons that "governments should eliminate the practice of alert procedures (e.g. relying on continuously available weapons) and set an immediate goal to remove all weapons from active deployment—that is, to dismantle them to the point that to use them would require reconstruction"; and what steps they are taking towards this objective. [HL578]
§ Baroness Symons of Vernham DeanIn the Strategic Defence Review and elsewhere, the Government are examining all aspects of their nuclear policy. This examination includes measures advocated by the Carnegie Commission, such as de-alerting and related concepts.
Several of the Carnegie Commission's recommendations are already government policy. The Government hope to ratify the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty this year and have committed themselves to support for a Fissile Material Cut-Off Treaty.