§ Mr. Ashdownasked the Secretary of State for Defence if he will make a statement on Her Majesty's Government's policy on technology transfer in the light of the report introduced at the meeting of the North Atlantic Assembly in San Francisco recently.
§ Mr. Norman LamontThe Government's policy remains as set out in the statement on the Defence Estimates 1984 (Cmnd. 9227-I): to balance the requirements of legitimate civil trade with those of national and Alliance security, and to ensure that export controls focus on areas of genuine strategic concern where they can be effectively enforced.