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Cluster Munitions: Exports

Department for Business, Innovation and Skills written question – answered at on 26 May 2016.

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Photo of Neil Coyle Neil Coyle Labour, Bermondsey and Old Southwark

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, whether any cluster bombs have been exported under licence from the UK to Saudi Arabia or Yemen since 1989.

Photo of Anna Soubry Anna Soubry The Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills

Our electronic records show that since 1999 no licences have been granted to Saudi Arabia or Yemen for cluster bombs.

Paper records prior to 1999 can only be searched at disproportionate cost.

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  • (Citation: HC Deb, 26 May 2016, cW)

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