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Written Question
Arms Trade: Israel
Monday 28th October 2024

Asked by: Lord Howard of Lympne (Conservative - Life peer)

Question to the Attorney General:

To ask His Majesty's Government whether the advice of the Attorney General on arms exports to Israel required certain export licences to be suspended.

Answered by Lord Hermer - Attorney General

Paragraph 21.27 of Erskine May states:

“By long-standing convention, observed by successive Governments, the fact of, and substance of advice from, the law officers of the Crown is not disclosed outside government. This convention is referred to in paragraph 2.13 of the Ministerial Code. The purpose of this convention is to enable the Government to obtain frank and full legal advice in confidence.”

This is known as the Law Officers’ Convention and it applies to your question.