Orders of the Day — Export Control Bill

Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 3:34 pm on 9 July 2001.

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Photo of Gerald Howarth Gerald Howarth Conservative, Aldershot 3:34, 9 July 2001

I am grateful to the Secretary of State for giving way, but I must press her on that point. She owes it to Parliament and to the country at large and defence industries in particular—in spirit, they sympathise with the Government's objectives—to give examples of how British-manufactured equipment is getting into the hands of people who are using it unscrupulously; and to identify those British nationals who are engaged in that illegal and quite disgraceful traffic.