USA: Armed Forces
Commons · Question 107670 · Tabled 22 Jan 2026 · Ministry of Defence · Official record
Answered 27 Jan 2026
Question
Asked by Jeremy Corbyn
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether agreements between the United States and United Kingdom on the presence of US military forces in Britain place restrictions on the ability of the US to deploy nuclear weapons in Britain.
Answer
Answered by Luke Pollard, 27 Jan 2026
The terms, conditions and jurisdiction considerations that govern the US - and any other visiting NATO force permanently based in the UK - are enshrined in the NATO Status of Forces Agreement (1951), which is embedded into UK law by the Visiting Forces Ac...