§ Mr. KidneyTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what assessment he has made of the compliance with his Department's ethical foreign policy of the sale of military, security and police equipment to Kenya. [35969]
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§ Mr. FatchettIn accordance with the revised criteria for licensing arms exports, we do not issue arms export licences for Kenya where there is a clearly identifiable risk that the proposed export might be used for internal repression.
During 1997 we rejected licence applications (together worth over £1.5 million) to export certain types of riot control equipment, including baton rounds and tear gas, to the Kenyan police. Furthermore, we removed Kenya from the coverage of several Open Individual Export Licences for the supply of body armour, firearms and ammunition.