Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what progress the UN Security Council P5 process on non-proliferation and confidence-building measures on nuclear disarmament has made; and where and when the next P5 meeting on non-proliferation and confidence-building will take place.

The UK initiated the P5 process in 2009 to build mutual trust, understanding and transparency between the Nuclear Weapon States as these are essential prerequisites towards our shared goal of a world without nuclear weapons. Discussing divergent views is part of this process. The last P5 meeting involving representatives from capitals took place in October 2017 when the dialogue on strategic stability and nuclear doctrines, started in October 2016, continued. The P5 also meet at expert level in a number of different fora. The next P5 meeting should take place in the margins of the second Preparatory Committee for the 2020 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference in Geneva.