HC Deb 25 January 1991 vol 184 cc356-7W
Mr. Winnick

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what was the policy of the Government towards the selling of arms by the United Kingdom to Iraq since 1980.

Mr. Alan Clark

The Government have refused to allow the export of lethal defence equipment to Iraq since the beginning of the Iran-Iraq war in 1980. This restriction was maintained after the ceasefire in 1988 and has now been overtaken by the total trade embargo agreed by the United Nations.