Saudi Arabia: Arms Trade

(asked on 1st April 2019) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether the (a) arms exported under the 2005 Al-Salam arms deal, (b) pending deal announced in March 2018 for 48 Typhoon jets to Saudi Arabia and (c) associated in-country support for both of those deals are governed by the 1986 Al-Yamamah MOU.


Answered by
Stuart Andrew Portrait
Stuart Andrew
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Culture, Media and Sport)
This question was answered on 4th April 2019

The 1986 Memorandum of Understanding signed by the Governments of the United Kingdom and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia continues to govern the government-to-government arrangements for the supply of military equipment and services to the Saudi Arabian Armed Forces, including the programmes of work agreed under the Salam Project.

It is expected that any future agreement for additional Typhoon aircraft would be concluded under the Salam Project.

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