Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Grant Shapps and Nick Smith

Monday 25th March 2024 Commons Chamber

[Grant Shapps]

It is a pity to ask all those questions without referencing the 100-plus hostages who are still being held by Hamas, who brutally slaughtered the population deliberately rather than as a by-product of war. The hon. Gentleman asks a number of questions. I can tell him that on arms exports to Israel, an issue for which I am responsible, it is, to put it in proportion—I think, from the top of my head—just £48 million for the past year. The numbers are actually very small indeed. He will know that his latter question is one for the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office.

[Nick Smith (Blaenau Gwent) (Lab)]

12. What recent assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the defence procurement system.