BAE Systems: Al Yamamah Contract

Part of the debate – in the House of Lords at 5:35 pm on 14 December 2006.

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Photo of Lord Clinton-Davis Lord Clinton-Davis Labour 5:35, 14 December 2006

My Lords, does my noble and learned friend agree that the Saudi authorities have exerted undue pressure to avoid any prosecution? They are able to say that the relationship between the UK Government and Saudi Arabia will be irretrievably damaged if that advice is not heeded. I hope, therefore—and I look to my noble and learned friend to say this—that those sorts of pressures, which are undesirable, have played no part in the consideration of this issue by the Government.