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Saudi Arabia: Military Aid

Question for Ministry of Defence

UIN 228154, tabled on 4 March 2019

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 22 January 2019 to Question 207274 on Arms Trade: Saudi Arabia, whether the terms of the (a) 1985 and (b) 1986 Al Yamamah MOUs have been replicated in the Saudi British Defence Cooperation Programme.

This answer is the replacement for a previous holding answer.

Answered on

8 March 2019

The 1986 Memorandum of Understanding continues to govern the government-to-government arrangements for the supply of military equipment and services to the Saudi Arabian Armed Forces, including the programmes of work agreed under the Saudi British Defence Cooperation Programme.

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