Paul Flynn – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Ministry of Defence

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Paul Flynn on 2016-06-13.

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether he plans to extend the remit of his Department’s Blacknest verification centre to verify nuclear disarmament and warhead dismantlement.

Mr Philip Dunne

There are no plans to expand the remit of the Blacknest facility, which is primarily concerned with fulfilling the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty UK national data centre requirements.