To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what his most recent assessment is of the level of illegally held (a) weapons and (b) explosives in Northern Ireland. (304592)

The Independent International Commission on Decommissioning has worked, and continues to work, to put the armaments of republican and loyalist terrorist groups beyond use. By their nature estimates of illegally held weaponry would be speculative and it is not Government practice to provide information on this basis.