HC Deb 05 November 2003 vol 412 cc665-6W
Mr. Gardiner

To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry pursuant to her answer of 16 September 2003, Official Report, column 705W, on export controls, whether she has examined the impact that the Government's proposals for export control will have on the safety of UK military personnel. [136254]

Nigel Griffiths

By strengthening the strategic export control regime, the new controls will reduce the risk that goods or technology exported from the UK, or goods brokered from the UK, or in certain circumstances goods brokered by UK persons anywhere in the world, could be used against UK armed forces.