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Israel: Arms Trade

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Question for Department for Business and Trade

UIN 20858, tabled on 17 December 2024

Question

Apsana Begum
Independent
Poplar and Limehouse
Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether the deals announced on 16 December 2024 between the Israel Ministry of Defence and Elbit Systems for the supply of advanced communication systems to the Israel Defence Force will include products (a) developed or (b) made by Elbit Systems UK Ltd.

Answer

Mr Douglas Alexander
Labour
Lothian East
Commons

Answered on

14 January 2025

We cannot comment on individual companies’ commercial plans. Elbit Systems UK Ltd, like all UK companies, would be required to apply for an export licence to export military or dual-use items from the UK.

All such applications are assessed against the Strategic Export Licensing Criteria and under the terms of our current suspension of certain licences to Israel, any licence application for components that could be used in military operations in Gaza would currently be refused.

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