Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what information the Atomic Weapons Establishment has received from Brookhaven National Laboratory under the 1958 US-UK Mutual Defense Agreement on atomic energy matters on the Controlled Intrusiveness Verification Technology measurement system since January 2007.

The Atomic Weapons Establishment received one briefing on the Controlled Intrusiveness Verification Technology (CIVET) from Brookhaven National Laboratories on 16 April 2007 in the US. This briefing was part of the ongoing technical co-operation for arms control between the US and UK to develop and evaluate methodologies and technologies to verify potential nuclear weapon treaties.