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Military Bases: Nuclear Weapons

Ministry of Defence written question – answered at on 27 January 2026.

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Photo of Jeremy Corbyn Jeremy Corbyn Independent, Islington North

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 17 April 2025 to Question 45840 on RAF Lakenheath: Nuclear Weapons, when it first became policy for his Department to neither confirm nor deny the presence of nuclear weapons at United States military bases in the United Kingdom.

Photo of Luke Pollard Luke Pollard The Minister of State, Ministry of Defence

It has been UK policy for decades to neither confirm nor deny the presence of nuclear weapons at any given location.

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  • (Citation: HC Deb, 27 January 2026, cW)

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