Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether the proposed parameters of a permanent nuclear deal between Iran and the P5+1 would permit Iran to construct a graphite plutogenic reactor.

We will only agree to a comprehensive deal that has the restrictions and verification measures necessary to reassure the international community that Iran’s nuclear programme is exclusively peaceful, and gives us enough time to respond in the event Iran decides to violate the agreement. However, it remains the Government’s policy not to comment on the detail of the nuclear negotiations while they are continuing.