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Arms Trade: Saudi Arabia

Question for Department for International Trade

UIN 3794, tabled on 22 October 2019

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, pursuant to the Answer of 17 October 2019 to Question 295 on Arms Trade: Saudi Arabia, how many of the licences were for goods that could be used in the Yemen conflict.

Answered on

28 October 2019

The Court of Appeal judgment of 20 June 2019 placed the Government under an obligation not to grant any new licences to export items to Saudi Arabia for possible use in the conflict in Yemen.

The licence applications are still under consideration to determine whether they are for possible use in Yemen.

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