To ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will make it his policy not to take any decision on the initial gate stage of Trident until proposals for such a decision have been debated on the floor of the House; and if he will make a statement. (284968)

I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave on 22 June 2009, Official Report, column 628W, to my hon. Friend the Member for Islington, North (Jeremy Corbyn).