Export Licensing: High Court Judgment Debate

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Amanda Milling

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Export Licensing: High Court Judgment

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Points of Order
Monday 10th July 2017

(6 years, 10 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Liam Fox Portrait Dr Fox
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By our engagement with Saudi Arabia, we are able to raise any reservations we have about international humanitarian law and human rights, which we do.

Amanda Milling Portrait Amanda Milling (Cannock Chase) (Con)
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In the last Parliament, it took quite some time for the Committees on Arms Export Controls to be set up. Will my right hon. Friend speak to the Leader of the House to see whether that important Committee can be set up as quickly as possible?

Liam Fox Portrait Dr Fox
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The usual channels will have heard my hon. Friend’s view. As I have made clear, I have no objection to such a Committee being in place. It is a balanced judgment as to whether we have such a Committee or not. As I said, any Committee that looks into the probity of Ministers’ decisions should be welcomed by Ministers as well as by the House as a whole.

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