To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what plans there are for British participation in the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation review of military strategy.

The United Kingdom will participate fully in the review of the alliance's military strategy to which my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State agreed at last month's ministerial meeting of the defence planning committee. Ministers also agreed that this review would be based on the continuing validity of the principles of alliance security set out in the comprehensive concept of arms control and disarmament.