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Weapons of Mass Destruction (EUC Report)

My Lords, I am glad that my noble friend Lord Giddens was able to make that intervention, with which I do not disagree. I am saying that the committee tended to the view that there was not a great credible threat of nuclear terrorism, but it is important that we clarify the Government’s assessment of that. There should be more transparency, and I include in that the slightly equivocal Government response on the setting-up of the centre in Brussels, which I think is important. Now that terrorists have carried out 9/11 and there is no question of their lack of ambition, we need to show that the non-proliferation treaty is not a dead letter, which is what a lot of people are saying. We also need to be clear in our minds on the question of non-state actors and terrorism.