Nicholas Soames: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what recent progress has been made on negotiations on the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty. [158406]

Alistair Burt, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs: The Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) and New START are bilateral treaties between the USA and Russia.

Both countries' delegations made statements at the recent Non-Proliferation Preparatory Committee meeting in Geneva in April 2013. These can be found on the UN website:

http://www.un.org/disarmament/WMD/Nuclear/NPT2015/PrepCom2013/