Whether HMG consider the ongoing US Airborne Laser Programme to be fully compliant with the Space Treaty and with the Anti Ballistic Missile Treaty system depends and whether there are any British participants in the Boeing ABM Programme, or any British funding.

Whether HMG consider the ongoing US Airborne Laser Programme to be fully compliant with the Space Treaty and with the Anti Ballistic Missile Treaty system depends and whether there are any British participants in the Boeing ABM Programme, or any British funding.

What are the definitions of "outer space" currently in use, whose definitions they are, whether the military satellites of the United States, Russia and other countries are now operating in "outer space", and if not where, in international law, they are operating.

What are the definitions of "outer space" currently in use, whose definitions they are, whether the military satellites of the United States, Russia and other countries are now operating in "outer space", and if not where, in international law, they are operating.

Why the United Kingdom and other West European governments abstained from the United Nations General Assembly vote in favour of the prevention of an arms race in space and whether this abstention indicates indifference to the militarisation of space in spite of the provisions of Article 1 of the Space...

Why the United Kingdom and other West European governments abstained from the United Nations General Assembly vote in favour of the prevention of an arms race in space and whether this abstention indicates indifference to the militarisation of space in spite of the provisions of Article 1 of the Space...

Whether the 1967 Space Treaty gives the right to individual states to conduct unlimited military espionage and target acquisition on other sovereign states and to develop triggering systems for weapons in or below "outer space"; and, if so, whether they will cite the passages in the treaty text which they...

Whether the 1967 Space Treaty gives the right to individual states to conduct unlimited military espionage and target acquisition on other sovereign states and to develop triggering systems for weapons in or below "outer space"; and, if so, whether they will cite the passages in the treaty text which they...

Whether, further to the Answer given by Baroness Chalker of Wallasey on 2 May (WA 157), they consider the basing of laser and other weapons in space, as currently being developed by the United States, is permitted under the Outer Space Treaty. - Refer to Answers which I gave on...

Whether, further to the Answer given by Baroness Chalker of Wallasey on 2 May (WA 157), they consider the basing of laser and other weapons in space, as currently being developed by the United States, is permitted under the Outer Space Treaty. - Refer to Answers which I gave on...

Whether it has been generally understood by signatories of the space treaty that only those military activities specifically precluded by Article 4 of the space treaty are prohibited and that no other military activity in space is governed by Article 1 of the Treaty. - It is for each party...

Whether it has been generally understood by signatories of the space treaty that only those military activities specifically precluded by Article 4 of the space treaty are prohibited and that no other military activity in space is governed by Article 1 of the Treaty. - It is for each party...

Whether it is their belief that any military activity other than those specifically precluded by Article 4 of the space treaty is (a) permitted, and (b) is not governed by Article 1 of the Treaty.

Whether it is their belief that any military activity other than those specifically precluded by Article 4 of the space treaty is (a) permitted, and (b) is not governed by Article 1 of the Treaty.

Whether, in answering questions about the weaponsiation of space (14th and 26th February 1996) they quoted only Article IV of the 1967 Space Treaty, and not Article I which states that "the exploration and use of outer space... shall be carried out for the benefit and in the interests of...

Whether, in answering questions about the weaponsiation of space (14th and 26th February 1996) they quoted only Article IV of the 1967 Space Treaty, and not Article I which states that "the exploration and use of outer space... shall be carried out for the benefit and in the interests of...

Why, in answering a Question about the weaponisation of space (14 February 1996, 48WA), HMG quoted only Article IV of the 1967 Space Treaty, and not Article I, which states that "the exploration and use of outer space... shall be carried out for the benefit and in the interests of...

Why, in answering a Question about the weaponisation of space (14 February 1996, 48WA), HMG quoted only Article IV of the 1967 Space Treaty, and not Article I, which states that "the exploration and use of outer space... shall be carried out for the benefit and in the interests of...

Whether HMG are content for space to be "weaponised" and if not, what steps they are taking to discourage the United States from pursuing this objective.

Whether HMG are content for space to be "weaponised" and if not, what steps they are taking to discourage the United States from pursuing this objective.

Whether the holding and/or use of anti-satellite weapons is lawful under the provisions of the Space Treaty or of the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.

Whether the holding and/or use of anti-satellite weapons is lawful under the provisions of the Space Treaty or of the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.

Whether the 1967 Space Treaty gives an undoubted right, to those individual states that are capable of doing so, to conduct unlimited military espionage and target acquisition on other sovereign states, and if so whether they will cite the passages in the treaty text which allow this, in the light...

Whether the 1967 Space Treaty gives an undoubted right, to those individual states that are capable of doing so, to conduct unlimited military espionage and target acquisition on other sovereign states, and if so whether they will cite the passages in the treaty text which allow this, in the light...