Export Licensing: High Court Judgment Debate

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Department: Department for International Trade

Export Licensing: High Court Judgment

John Bercow Excerpts
Monday 10th July 2017

(7 years, 3 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Liam Fox Portrait Dr Fox
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It is slightly worrying to me how often I agree with the hon. Gentleman, and I find myself doing so again today. It is not what the criteria are called, but what they contain that matters. Their content has clearly stood the rigour of the Court’s scrutiny today. I completely agree with him that it would be wayward, to say the least, for any Government to consider criteria any less rigorous than those we have today.

John Bercow Portrait Mr Speaker
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The hon. Member for Ilford South (Mike Gapes) does not look worried at all; he looks in a state of high contentment that the Secretary of State agrees with him. Anybody would think, as far as the hon. Gentleman was concerned, that Christmas had come early, but I suppose it is always rather good when people agree with one.

Robert Courts Portrait Robert Courts (Witney) (Con)
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Will my right hon. Friend please tell the House whether, in his view, the High Court had before it all the information it needed to reach the judgment that has been handed down today?