HC Deb 06 July 1989 vol 156 c267W
Mr. Flynn

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what is the Government's policy on the sale of Hawk aircraft to the Government of Iraq.

Mr. Sainsbury

It has been the consistent practice of successive Administrations not to comment on individual defence sales. Any overseas sale of Hawk would require an export licence and any prospect of such a sale to Iraq would be considered against the guidelines announced by my right hon. and learned Friend the Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary on 29 October 1985 at column450.