§ Mr. Lathamasked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs whether he will set out in tabular form the date or dates on which (a) the European Community Council of Ministers imposed an arms sales embargo on Israel, (b) the United Kingdom announced its compliance with the embargo, (c) each other Community state did the same, (d) the embargo was lifted by the Community and (e) the embargo was announced to have been ended by any individual Community state.
§ Mr. RentonDefence sales policy is determined by individual Governments. Following discussions at the European Council in Brussels on 28–29 June 1982 the Belgian Prime Minister in his role as President stated that no member was supplying arms to Israel. On 30 June 1982 we announced that approval of licences for the export of British military equipment to Israel would be withheld until further notice. We are not aware that any member state has announced the lifting of restrictions.