Arms Trade: Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates

(asked on 27th January 2022) - View Source
Questioner
Ruth Cadbury Portrait
Ruth Cadbury
(Labour - Brentford and Isleworth)

Question to the Department for International Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, pursuant to the the Answer of 10 January 2022 to Question 100568 on Arms Trade: Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates, how her Department defines the threshold for minimal impact.

Answered by
Penny Mordaunt Portrait
Penny Mordaunt
Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons
This question was answered on 8th March 2022

The Department for International Trade does not have a definition of the threshold for minimal impact.

In the response I gave to the Hon. Member’s question, UIN:100568, we said “We do not expect the revised Strategic Export Licensing Criteria to have a significant impact on the level of arms exports to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates”

There is no special meaning to the phrase “significant impact” as used in our answer.

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