Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with his overseas counterparts on the multilateral disarmament of nuclear weapons.

Multilateral nuclear disarmament discussions are held throughout the year in Geneva at the UN Conference on Disarmament. There are annual meetings in New York of the UN General Assembly First Committee and the UN Disarmament Commission and a five-yearly cycle of Non-Proliferation Treaty Preparatory Committees and Review Conferences, where the UK is normally represented at Ambassador or Official level. The UK also meets annually with the P5 nuclear weapon states at senior official level to discuss disarmament and non-proliferation issues, with the next meeting to be held in London on 4-5 February.