RAF Lakenheath: Nuclear Weapons

(asked on 11th May 2022) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what estimate his Department has made of the potential cost to the public purse of storing US nuclear weapons at USAF Lakenheath; and from which budget heading that funding would be drawn.


Answered by
Jeremy Quin Portrait
Jeremy Quin
This question was answered on 16th May 2022

The Ministry of Defence is unable to comment on US spending decisions and capabilities, which are a matter for the US Government. It remains longstanding UK and NATO policy to neither confirm nor deny the presence of nuclear weapons at a given location.

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