Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what protocols are in available to his Department to raise breaches of the (a) Geneva Gas Protocol and (b) Chemical Weapons Convention with a fellow member of NATO; and if he will make a statement.

All NATO members are States Parties to the Chemical Weapons Convention and under a consequent legal obligation not to develop, produce, otherwise acquire, stockpile, retain or use chemical weapons. We have seen no substantive evidence to support allegations of a breach of the Chemical Weapons Convention of this nature by any NATO member at any time.