National Missile Defence (Hansard, 16 January 2001)

HC Deb 16 January 2001 vol 361 c170W 170W

§ Mr. Kilfoyle
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what recent discussions he has had with American officials on British facilities for National Missile Defence by the United States. [145307]

§ Mr. Vaz
The Government have had a regular dialogue with the current US Administration on the issue of US National Missile Defence. We look forward to continuing this with the next US Administration.
The current US Administration has not sought our agreement to the use of facilities in this country for National Missile Defence. Nor would we expect any such request from the United States until and unless the next Administration decided to proceed with the deployment of such a system.