§ Mr. DalyellTo ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what steps he took to satisfy himself that the die-forging plant to be built by Matrix-Churchill would 65W not be used in producing parts for ballistic missiles or the supergun project Babylon before he issued an export licence.
§ Mr. Ridley[holding answer 30 April 1990]: It has been the practice of successive Governments not to comment on individual licensing matters. Exports for Iran and Iraq are subject to the ministerial guidelines on defence sales announced by my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs in the House on 29 October 1985.