Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will publish on his Departmental website all correspondence between the governments of the UK and US on the negotiations of the proposed amendments to the Agreement between the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the Government of the United States of America for Cooperation on the Use of Atomic Energy for Mutual Defense Purposes, Cm 8947, which was laid before Parliament on 16 October 2014.

The Government will not publish the correspondence requested due to the potential harm to UK interests. The UK corresponds with US partners on a range of matters of mutual interest, and disclosure of the information requested would risk prejudicing our relationship with the US and our ability to promote and protect British interests. Disclosure of this correspondence would also risk inhibiting the quality and value of such international discussions in the future.