Whether they consider the siting of weapons in space should be a subject of preventive diplomacy by the United Nations or by any other party; and why successive British Governments have voted against or abstained from resolutions in the United Nations General Assembly on "preventing an arms race in outer...

Whether they consider the siting of weapons in space should be a subject of preventive diplomacy by the United Nations or by any other party; and why successive British Governments have voted against or abstained from resolutions in the United Nations General Assembly on "preventing an arms race in outer...

Whether they have given any undertakings to the United States not to object to its current research and development programmes for the siting of weapons in space as announced in the Quadrennial Defense Review and other official documents of the United States Administration. - No such undertakings have been given.

Whether they have given any undertakings to the United States not to object to its current research and development programmes for the siting of weapons in space as announced in the Quadrennial Defense Review and other official documents of the United States Administration. - No such undertakings have been given.

If the Science Minister will visit the Seventeenth Session of the Space School currently being held at Brunel University.

If the Science Minister will visit the Seventeenth Session of the Space School currently being held at Brunel University.

What role the United Kingdom will play in the proposed ESA Mars Express mission; and what assessment she has made of the contribution of United Kingdom scientists to Mars science.

What role the United Kingdom will play in the proposed ESA Mars Express mission; and what assessment she has made of the contribution of United Kingdom scientists to Mars science.

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 present arrangements for space use management and planning, given reports in Aviation Week passim that more than 1,000 satellites are to be put in low earth orbit between now and the year 2001 and the presence in orbit of vehicles and debris, which are hazard to other...

What are the present arrangements for space use management and planning, given reports in Aviation Week passim that more than 1,000 satellites are to be put in low earth orbit between now and the year 2001 and the presence in orbit of vehicles and debris, which are hazard to other...

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...

Statement on what was the result of the Transport Council held in Luxembourg on 17th and 18th June.

Statement on what was the result of the Transport Council held in Luxembourg on 17th and 18th June.

Impacts on earth from space. POST note 80. POST. 1996.

Impacts on earth from space. POST note 80. POST. 1996.

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.