To ask the Secretary of State for Defence whether the United States Congress has removed from the 1990–91 budget United States financing of the joint United States/United Kingdom over-the-horizon radar proposed for the former St. David's airfield, Pembrokeshire; and if he will make a statement.

We understand that, as part of congressional scrutiny of United States Government spending proposals for fiscal year 1991, the House of Representatives Appropriations Committee has requested the United States Government to re-examine the requirement to locate this system in the United Kingdom. The reponse to this request is a matter for the United States Government.