§ Llew SmithTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will set out the direct and indirect trade, barter or other form of exchange that has taken place since 1973 between the United States and the United Kingdom on nuclear weapons, nuclear weapons components or nuclear weapons materials under the provisions of the 1959 amendment to the 1958 US-UK Agreement on Mutual Defence on Atomic Energy Matters. [92307]
§ Mr. HoonI have been asked to reply.
Exchanges of information between the United Kingdom and the United States on nuclear weapon matters take place only under the auspices of the 1958 Mutual Defence Agreement, and its amendments.
There have been no transfers of nuclear weapons between the UK and the US. The UK is a member and a Depositary state for the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (1968) and our 881W actions, including under the Mutual Defence Agreement, are in compliance with that treaty. I am withholding other details under Exemption 1 of the Code of Practice on Access to Government Information.