Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what encouragement they will give to Israel to become a party to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.

We have consistently called on Israel to join the Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty as a non-nuclear state and to agree a full scope Comprehensive Safeguards Agreement with the International Atomic Energy Agency. Our objective is to achieve a Middle East free from Weapons of Mass Destruction, but realistically this will only be possible when political solutions have been found to the tensions in the region.