Chemical Weapons Convention: Protective Programme

Tuesday 6th December 2016 Written Statements

[The Minister for the Armed Forces (Mike Penning)]

My right hon. Friend the Minister of State in the House of Lords (Earl Howe) has made the following written statement:

The UK’s chemical protection programme is designed to protect against the use of chemical weapons. Such a programme is permitted by the chemical weapons convention, with which the United Kingdom is fully compliant. Under the terms of the convention, we are required to provide information annually to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons. In accordance with the Government’s commitment to openness, a copy of the summary that has been provided to the organisation outlining the UK’s chemical protection programme in 2015 has been placed in the Library of the House.

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