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Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Work and Pensions – in the House of Commons at 3:43 pm on 20 May 2013.

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Photo of William Hague William Hague The Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs 3:43, 20 May 2013

My hon. Friend is getting ahead of where we have reached in our policy making. We could supply arms only in carefully controlled circumstances, and with very clear commitments from the opposition side. I cannot at this stage go into what arrangements could be made—some of them would necessarily be confidential—but we would want to be able to assure the House and the country that we had confidence in any such arrangements. That is a subject that we might have to return to.