Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Defence – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 17 December 1991.
Menzies Campbell
Shadow Spokesperson (Defence), Shadow Spokesperson (Defence)
12:00,
17 December 1991
While accepting the need for the United Kingdom to have the protection of a strategic nuclear deterrent for the foreseeable future, may I ask the Secretary of State whether, as a result of his recent conversations with his French counterpart and the agreement reached at Maastricht, consideration has been given to greater co-operation in strategic nuclear matters with France?
Secretary of State was originally the title given to the two officials who conducted the Royal Correspondence under Elizabeth I. Now it is the title held by some of the more important Government Ministers, for example the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.
