Nick Harvey – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Ministry of Defence

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Nick Harvey on 2015-02-12.

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assistance the Atomic Weapons Establishment is receiving from the US authorities on Project Pegasus.

Mr Philip Dunne

Officials from the Ministry of Defence and the Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) regularly discuss a range of nuclear matters with their US counterparts under the auspices of the 1958 Mutual Defence Agreement. These matters include aspects of the capital investment programme at AWE, of which Pegasus forms a part.