Comment by Pauline Neville-Jones

Control is the key issue, and policies that do not lead to control or enable us to keep control will lead to something that could very well be regarded as a disaster. [...] The question that the noble Lord posed was: do we therefore go for a moratorium? That would be highly desirable, but I do not think that it will be possible in the short term. [...] I am therefore pessimistic about getting an international dialogue going on the basis of a moratorium, and I think, as the noble Lord just said, that we have to act on our own recognisance.