Arms Trade: Saudi Arabia

(asked on 4th March 2021) - View Source

Question to the Department for International Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, whether current licences for components for bombs issued on 4 August 2020 include contracts for Raytheon Systems UK to deliver Paveway IVs or components thereof to Saudi Arabia; and whether she has made an assessment of the effect of the the US and Italian Government's decisions to suspend or revoke certain sales and export licences to Saudi Arabia on the UK export of aerial ground-attack munitions and their components to Saudi Arabia.


Answered by
Ranil Jayawardena Portrait
Ranil Jayawardena
This question was answered on 9th March 2021

HM Government will continue to take its export responsibilities seriously and assess all export licences in accordance with the Consolidated EU and National Arms Export Licensing Criteria (the ‘Consolidated Criteria’). The decisions of other countries are matters for them.

Disclosure of information relating to private contracts between businesses would be inappropriate.

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