HC Deb 16 October 1990 vol 177 cc771-2W
Mr. David Davis

To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry whether Export Credits Guarantee Department cover will be provided for the sale by British Aerospace of Hawk aircraft to Kenya.

Mr. Lilley

In view of the importance that the Government attach to this contract, I have instructed ECGD to provide cover under the provisions of section 2(1) of the Export Guarantees and Overseas Investment Act 1978 and under the procedures set out in the answer given by the then Minister for Trade, my hon. Friend the Member for Plymouth, Sutton (Mr. Clark) on 28 June 1988 at columns 164–65.