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Military Bases: Nuclear Weapons

Asked by Jeremy CorbynYour PartyMinistry of DefenceTabled Answered 27 January 2026UIN 107671

The question

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 S

Answered by Luke Pollard

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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