Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of reports that Iran has reneged on an agreement to ship its stock of enriched uranium to Russia.

On 2 April in Lausanne, the E3+3 and Iran agreed that Iran’s enriched uranium stockpile would be reduced and limited as part of a comprehensive nuclear deal to reassure the international community of the exclusively peaceful nature of Iran’s nuclear programme. However, it remains Government policy not to comment on the detail of the nuclear negotiations while they are continuing.