§ Mr. DalyellTo ask the President of the Board of Trade what assessment he has made of the impact on British(a) trade and (b) industry of the United Nations sanctions against Libya; and if he will place in the Library the information passed by his Department relating to evasion of sanctions by Belgium, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, South Korea and Spain. [2890]
§ Mr. Oppenheim[holding answer 6 December 1995]: The United Nations sanctions against Libya are selective. They prohibit in particular supply and export of arms, aviation supplies and certain oil industry equipment in which the United Kingdom is strongly competitive. It is not possible to say what is the precise effect of the sanctions on UK trade and industry, but one sign of the resilience of our trading position is that exports to Libya in 1995 will exceed £200 million.
My Department has passed no information to the UN sanctions committee, the body responsible for co-ordinating matters including evasion of sanctions.