Nuclear Disarmament

(asked on 18th July 2017) - View Source

Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, with reference to his Department's statement of 8 July on the outcome of the United Nations' Nuclear Weapons Ban treaty, which multilateral nuclear disarmament negotiations using a step-by-step approach the UK is currently engaged in; and how many nuclear warheads have been removed from deployment as a result of such negotiations since the Nuclear Non-Proliferation treaty.


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Alan Duncan
This question was answered on 26th July 2017

We continue to work with partners across the international community to press for key steps towards multilateral disarmament, including the entry into force of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty and successful negotiations on a Fissile Material Cut-Off Treaty in the Conference on Disarmament. There have been significant reductions in global warhead numbers since the late 1970s; the UK has reduced our nuclear forces by over half since that date.

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