Written Question
Wednesday 25th March 2015
Asked by:
John Stanley (Conservative - Tonbridge and Malling)
Question
to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether the Defence Attaché in post in the British Embassy in Ukraine was aware when the Government gave export licence approval in December 2014 for the export of 75 Saxon Armoured Personnel Carriers to Ukraine that they might be armed on their arrival in Ukraine; and what steps were taken by the British Embassy in Ukraine to inform the Government of this possibility.
Answered by David Lidington
Our British Embassy in Kyiv were consulted on the export licence application and made enquiries with the Ukraine Ministry of Defence and Ukroboronprom (state-owned defence enterprise) who stated that the Saxon Armoured Personnel Carriers (APCs) would be used by two battalions operating in the Anti-Terrorist Operation area and by airmobile units for reconnaissance and general patrolling. Our British Embassy in Kyiv was not aware that the Saxon vehicles might be armed on their arrival in Ukraine and we are not aware that the Ukrainians have armed any of the APC’s. We have however been informed by the Ukraine Deputy Minister of Defence that some may be converted for use as “Medevac vehicles.”
Written Question
Tuesday 17th March 2015
Asked by:
John Stanley (Conservative - Tonbridge and Malling)
Question
to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether there is a Defence Attaché in post in the British Embassy in Ukraine.
Answered by David Lidington
There is a Defence Attaché in post in the British Embassy in Ukraine.
Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 09 Mar 2015
Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference
"This is a necessary and timely debate, and I should like to congratulate the right hon. Member for Derby South (Margaret Beckett) on securing it. Like many others on both sides of the House, I had until recently been moderately optimistic that we were winning the battle against nuclear proliferation. …..."John Stanley - View Speech
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Written Question
Tuesday 3rd March 2015
Asked by:
John Stanley (Conservative - Tonbridge and Malling)
Question
to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether he will be laying a Gifting Minute before the House in respect of Saxon armoured vehicles exported to Ukraine.
Answered by David Lidington
The 20 Saxon armoured vehicles exported to Ukraine was a commercial sale between a private company and the Ukraine Ministry of Defence, and subject to the rigorous export licensing process. The vehicles were not gifted to Ukraine by the Government, therefore a gifting minute will not be laid before the House.
Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 02 Dec 2014
Foreign Affairs Committee (Hong Kong Visit)
"I am glad to follow the excellent opening speech of my right hon. Friend the Member for Croydon South (Sir Richard Ottaway), the Chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee, of which I have been a member since 1992.
When you, Mr Speaker, gave your most welcome consent to this debate …..."John Stanley - View Speech
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Thu 30 Oct 2014
Arms Exports and Controls
"As this will be our last opportunity during this Parliament to debate a report by the Committees on Arms Export Controls, I start by thanking most warmly my colleagues from the four Select Committees who have served on our Committees during this Parliament for the time that they have given, …..."John Stanley - View Speech
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Thu 30 Oct 2014
Arms Exports and Controls
"The right hon. Gentleman makes an important point as a member of the Committees on Arms Export Controls and the Chair of the International Development Committee, and I am sure that the Minister will want to respond to it...."John Stanley - View Speech
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Thu 30 Oct 2014
Arms Exports and Controls
"The Committees most certainly do. As the hon. Gentleman will have seen, we included in our report specific questions to the Government about how particular items that have been approved for export to Bahrain can be regarded as compatible with the export criteria that they supposedly follow. We therefore have …..."John Stanley - View Speech
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Thu 30 Oct 2014
Arms Exports and Controls
"There is certainly a risk of a recurrence of exactly what the hon. Lady describes. I hope that a lesson has been learned by the Hong Kong police that it is not acceptable to use tear gas against those who are demonstrating peacefully. It remains a matter of concern to …..."John Stanley - View Speech
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Thu 30 Oct 2014
Arms Exports and Controls
"The hon. Gentleman, again, is on to a very important area, and that again highlights the need to get much more transparency about end users. He makes an extremely valid point, which applies even more strikingly in relation to non-democratic countries—one-party state countries such as Russia and China, in effect, …..."John Stanley - View Speech
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