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Foreign Affairs and Defence

It is kind of the Secretary of State to give way a second time. In the context of what we have said about the non-proliferation treaty and my right hon. Friend’s response to the questions asked by my hon. Friend the Member for Sunderland, South (Mr. Mullin), will he confirm that there is no preparation at the Atomic Weapons Establishment Aldermaston for the construction of a facility to make any new nuclear weapons, free-fall bombs or anything similar, and that all decisions will be in the open before such construction work begins?