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Written Answers — Defence: Nuclear Weapons (6 Feb 2002)

Mr Frank Cook: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what the cost is of work conducted for the UK Trident programme in the past year by (a) Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, (b) Los Alamos National Laboratory and (c) Sandia National Laboratory.

Written Answers — Defence: Trident (28 Jan 2002)

Mr Frank Cook: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence whether he has decided to extend the life of the Trident warhead beyond the expected service life; and what plans he has to extend the life of the submarine beyond the expected service life.

Royal Air Force (4 May 1995)

Mr Frank Cook: ..., and we could have done it with conventional weapons with laser precision. We do not need nuclear warheads on a TASM; we already have them in Polaris and will have them in greater strength in Trident. How many more times does the hon. Gentleman want to multiply them at a time when we are supposed to be actively involved in extending a nuclear non-proliferation treaty? Where is the logic...

Statement on the Defence Estimates (18 Oct 1993)

Mr Frank Cook: ...The 1993 estimates do not have that stamp of rapid reaction authority or thinking. They are totally imprisoned in old-fashioned concepts and out-of-date forms of preparation. We must forget about Trident. I was astounded to discover today that the tactical air-to-surface missile is now the sole nuclear vehicle. I do not know how one explains that. To talk about replacing it, in a...

The Army (8 Jun 1989)

Mr Frank Cook: ...and development? I am sure that the Minister will refer to this later if he takes up this line of challenge that I am throwing out. Will that collaboration be of the kind that we were offered with Trident when the agreement was broken? The House will recall that we were promised that Trident would be maintained in this country, but now it will not. We were told that Trident would be our...

The Army (13 Jan 1987)

Mr Frank Cook: ...provision of conventional resources must be made good. I doubt that we would have any argument about that; hence the Labour party's policy for the redirection of the defence budget allocation from Trident schedules and the like to a programme of procurement of weapons of the very latest design in conventional terms—in fact, exactly that for which the hon. Member for Winchester...