Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they supported the Tbilisi Declaration of the OSCE that “Calls on all participating OSCE States to participate in the 2018 UN international conference on disarmament at the highest level and to include parliamentarians in their delegations to the conference to pursue the adoption of nuclear risk reduction, transparency and disarmament measures”; and whether the UK delegation will include parliamentarians.

The Tbilisi Declaration was adopted by the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe ​Parliamentary Assembly and not by the Government. We will consider our approach to the 2018 international conference closer to the time. The Government firmly believes that the best way to achieve a world without nuclear weapons is through gradual multilateral disarmament negotiated using a step by step approach and within the framework of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.