Oral Answers to Questions Debate

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Department: Ministry of Defence

Oral Answers to Questions

Kerry McCarthy Excerpts
Monday 13th June 2022

(2 years, 4 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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James Heappey Portrait James Heappey
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My hon. Friend has hit upon the key point. For the last two months or so, the discussion with the Ukrainians has followed two tracks. There is the discussion about how to support them in the fight tomorrow, and there is the discussion about how to ensure that they are secure within their own borders whenever this conflict eventually ends. The UK is to the fore in both those efforts, bringing together international support and, increasingly, mobilising the UK defence industry.

Kerry McCarthy Portrait Kerry McCarthy (Bristol East) (Lab)
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T5. After the conference on disarmament in March, the UK representative said that while the situation in Ukraine would clearly have an impact on countries’ security calculations, it also“makes it more important than ever for the international community to revitalise our commitment to arms control and disarmament.”Can the Secretary of State tell us what discussions he has had with his NATO counterparts since then on reinvigorating multilateral nuclear disarmament talks?