Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment he has made of implications for (a) his policies and (b) the stationing of intermediate range nuclear warheads in Europe of the reactivation of the 56th Artillery Command by the US army.

NATO Allies have been clear that we have no intention to deploy land-based nuclear missiles in Europe. The UK's nuclear deterrent, which has been assigned to the defence of NATO since 1962, will continue to be delivered by Royal Navy submarines carrying nuclear-armed Trident missiles and maintaining a continuous at sea deterrence posture.