CONSERVATIVE
New Forest East

'POINT OF ORDER – 'NUCLEAR OPTION' - 21 December 2010

'POINT OF ORDER – 'NUCLEAR OPTION' - 21 December 2010

Dr Julian Lewis: On a point of order, Mr Speaker. Those of us who have been worried about the future of the nuclear deterrent in the light of some Government decisions will have been heartened by today's report in the Daily Telegraph that at least one Cabinet Minister has access to nuclear weapons. Have you received any notice, from any member of the Government, of a statement to be made in this House about this welcome augmentation of British military capability?

[Mr Speaker: No, I have received no such indication. I shall take this as a pre-Christmas point of order of the New Forest East genre, and we will leave it at that for today.]