asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs what is the present position regarding Her Majesty's Government's proposal for an Atlantic Nuclear Force; and what is now the Government's policy towards the alternative proposals for a Multilateral Force or a European Nuclear Force.

Our Atlantic Nuclear Force proposals are under discussion among interested members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation in the Paris Working Group. We consider the Atlantic Nuclear Force to be the best solution so far suggested to the problem of associating the non-nuclear members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation more closely with the Western deterrent.