Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of the state parties to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference in August 2022 not reaching a consensus agreement.

The Review Conference was unable to agree an outcomes document solely because Russia blocked consensus over references to Ukraine. However, the Conference did advance discussions of the Treaty's three pillars and agreed to set up a working group to strengthen the review process. The Treaty remains the cornerstone of the nuclear non-proliferation regime. The UK is proud of its contributions to the Treaty's success including our track record on nuclear disarmament, non-proliferation and peaceful uses of nuclear technology. We will continue this work into the next review cycle. On 12 October, a Written Ministerial Statement was published on the Review Conference.