To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will make it his policy to initiate with other nuclear non-proliferation treaty member states an investigation into alleged collaboration between Israel and South Africa on nuclear weapons research and testing; and if he will make a statement.

We have no evidence of such collaboration. It is our long-standing policy to follow as closely as possible all developments which might lead to the proliferation of nuclear weapons.

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he has received any reports from the British Antarctic Survey concerning nuclear weapons tests in the Norwegian section of Antarctica.

We have received no such reports from the British Antarctic Survey.