Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and nuclear disarmament inquiry
Inquiry by the International Relations and Defence Committee, 5 November 2018 to 5 November 2018. Its page on the Parliament website.
Reports and responses
- 7th Report - Rising nuclear risk, disarmament and the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (24 April 2019)
- Rising nuclear risk, disarmament and the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty: Government Response (4 July 2019)
Evidence sessions
- 12 December 2018: Izumi Nakamitsu, Under-Secretary-General and High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, United Nations
- 19 December 2018: Ms Sarah Price, Head of Counter Proliferation and Arms Control Centre, Acting Director for Defence and International Security, Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
- 19 December 2018: Ms Shatabhisha Shetty, Deputy Director, European Leadership Network; Mr Paul Ingram, Executive Director, British American Security Information Council.
- 9 January 2019: Mr Tom Plant, Director, Proliferation and Nuclear Policy, Royal United Services Institute.
- 16 January 2019: The Rt Hon Lord Browne of Ladyton, former Secretary of State for Defence and Vice-Chair, Nuclear Threat Initiative
- 23 January 2019: Dr Rebecca Johnson, Executive Director, Acronym Institute for Disarmament Diplomacy; Dr Hassan Elbahtimy, Lecturer in Science and Security, King’s College London.
- 30 January 2019: Rear Admiral John Gower CB OBE, former Assistant Chief of Defence Staff (Nuclear, Chemical, Biological), Ministry of Defence.
- 30 January 2019: Andrea Berger, Senior Research Associate and Senior Program Manager, James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies; Sir Simon Gass, former British Ambassador to Iran and former Political Director, Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
- 6 February 2019: Jessica Cox, Director of the Nuclear Policy Directorate, NATO
- 6 February 2019: François Heisbourg, Special Adviser, Fondation pour la recherche stratégique, and Senior Adviser for Europe, International Institute for Strategic Studies; Alexander Kmentt, former Director, Department for Disarmament, Arms Control and Non-Proliferation, Austrian Federal Ministry for Europe, Integration and Foreign Affairs.
- 13 February 2019: Ms Beatrice Fihn, Executive Director, International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN); Dr Nick Ritchie, Lecturer (International Security), University of York.
- 20 February 2019: Dr Anastasia Malygina, Associate Professor, School of International Relations, St Petersburg University
- 20 February 2019: Dr Tong Zhao, Fellow, Carnegie-Tsinghua Center for Global Policy, Beijing
- 20 February 2019: Alexandra Bell, Senior Policy Director, Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation; Dr Oliver Meier, Deputy Head, International Security Division, German Institute for International Affairs.
- 27 February 2019: Bert Koenders, former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Kingdom of the Netherlands.
- 27 February 2019: Dr Rafael Grossi, Permanent Representative of Argentina to the International Organisations in Vienna and President-designate of the 2020 NPT Review Conference.
- 6 March 2019: Rt Hon Sir Alan Duncan MP, Minister of State for Europe and the Americas, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office; Ms Sarah Price, Head of Counter Proliferation and Arms Control Centre, Foreign and Commonwealth Office; Mr James Franklin, Head of Nuclear Policy, Ministry of Defence.