Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment he has made of the status of Iran's ballistic missile programme; and what assessment he has made as to whether that programme has any links to the country's nuclear programme.

We assess that Iran has an extensive ballistic missile programme, in contravention of UN Security Council Resolutions 1737, 1747, 1803 and 1992. Iran's ballistic missile programme includes missiles capable of delivering a nuclear payload. However, we are not aware of any current links between Iran’s ballistic missile programme and nuclear programme.