Middle East
(asked on 4th March 2015) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what gifts of (a) non-lethal and (b) lethal military equipment have been made to (i) Turkey, (ii) Egypt, (iii) Jordan, (iv) Iraq and (v) Saudi Arabia in the last three years.
The Government publishes a table of all gifts approved against the Consolidated Criteria each year in the Annual Report on Strategic Export Controls. Information on Gifting is contained in Section 6. Links to the 2012 and 2013 reports are below.
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/strategic-export-controls-annual-report-2013
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/strategic-export-controls-annual-report-2012
Gifting details for 2014 are given in the table below:
| Country | End User(s) | Goods Decscription | Goods Value |
| IRAQ | Government of Iraq | Vallon Metal Detectors | 2,200,000.00 |
| JORDAN | Jordanian Armed Forces | Toyota Land Cruisers B6 Armoured Vehicles | 386,375.00 |
| IRAQ | Ministry of Peshmerga | Heavy machine guns spares, Mortars, Binoculars, Body Armour, Protective Equipment | 2,600,000 |