[Mark Pritchard in the Chair] — Backbench Business — Palestine

Part of the debate – in Westminster Hall at 4:30 pm on 1 December 2014.

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Photo of Debbie Abrahams Debbie Abrahams Labour, Oldham East and Saddleworth 4:30, 1 December 2014

I am grateful to my hon. Friend, who is making a powerful case on such an important subject, about which we all feel so passionately. Does he agree that our Government have a duty to behave responsibly on arms licences? I asked the Secretary of State for Defence about that last week and found that 68 licences were granted in the six months leading up to the summer before the crisis in Gaza. That is £7 million-worth of arms, which surely does not fit with our principle of responsible exports.