Draft Decommissioning Scheme

HC Deb 06 March 1998 vol 307 cc792-3W

Mr. Salter

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland if she will make public the draft decommissioning scheme presented to the parties at the Talks. [33575]

Marjorie Mowlam

I have today placed copies of the draft decommissioning scheme in the Libraries of both Houses and copies will be made available in the Vote Office. The scheme provides the detailed mechanisms which would allow voluntary decommissioning to take place.

In conjunction with the draft scheme, I recently laid a draft Order which will extend by approximately one year the period during which an amnesty for those decommissioning arms in accordance with the scheme can be made.