§ Mr. Warrenasked the Secretary of State for Defence if, in the light of his recent meeting with representatives of interested organisations and companies, he will make a further statement on the extent to which United Kingdom companies awarded strategic defence initiative contracts will be subject to United States export controls on technology in the exploitation of the knowledge they have acquired under such contracts.
§ Mr. Norman LamontI have nothing to add to what my right hon. Friend, the then Secretary of State for Defence told the House on 9 December 1985, at column 623.
§ Mr. Warrenasked the Secretary of State for Defence if, in the light of his recent meeting with representatives of interested organisations and companies, he will make a further statement on the ownership of the industrial property rights arising from strategic defence initiative contracts awarded to United Kingdom companies.
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§ Mr. Norman LamontI have nothing to add to the reply which I gave to the hon. Member for Hackney, South and Shoreditch (Mr. Sedgemore) on 11 March 1986, at column 423.