Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Alistair Carmichael and Graham Stuart

Thursday 11th January 2018 Commons Chamber

[The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for International Trade (Graham Stuart)]

I thank my hon. Friend for that question and for all she does to champion Chelmsford exporters, building on her great expertise in the European Parliament and elsewhere.

The Department does huge amounts to support small businesses to export and, as my right hon. Friend the Minister for Trade Policy explained earlier, we are seeing significant success in that regard. Baroness Fairhead recently announced a new great export readiness tool on great.gov.uk to help SMEs better to understand how export-ready they are and what they can do to start exporting or to expand their exporting activity.

[Mr Alistair Carmichael (Orkney and Shetland) (LD)]

T6. Given what we know Saudi Arabia to be doing in Yemen, is it appropriate that we should still be selling arms to it?