§ Llew SmithTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will list the military exports to Iraq authorised for export since 17 March 1988. [75946]
§ Nigel GriffithsI have been asked to reply.
Details of all military exports to Iraq authorised since 2 May 1997 are published in the Government's Annual Reports on Strategic Export Controls. Copies of the 1997. 1998, 1999, 2000 and 2001 Annual Reports are available in the Libraries of the House.
For details of military exports to Iraq authorised between 1 January 2002 and 1 October 2002, I refer my hon. Friend to the reply from my right hon. Friend the Member for Neath (Mr. Hain) to my hon. Friend the Member for Coventry, North-West (Mr. Robinson) on 21 January 2002, Official Report, columns 578–579W, and to the replies from my hon. Friend the Member for Rotherham (Mr. MacShane) to my hon. Friends the Member for Birmingham, Perry Barr (Mr. Mahmood) on 18 June 2002, Official Report, columns 296–297W, and the Member for Lancaster and Wyre (Mr. Dawson) on 16 October 2002, Official Report, column 833W.