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Saudi Arabia: Arms Trade

Question for Foreign and Commonwealth Office

UIN 71795, tabled on 24 April 2017

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, on how many occasions since 26 March 2015 his Department's Arms Export Policy Team has received notification of another EU member state's decision to refuse arms export licence applications in which Saudi Arabia was the recipient country; and if he will list the EU member states from whose governments such notifications have been received.

Answered on

27 April 2017

My department has received such notifications on 26 occasions since 26 March 2015. Information on denials is shared between EU Member States on a confidential basis and it is not possible to provide further information on specific refusal notifications.

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Foreign and Commonwealth Office
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