Early day motion tabled by primary sponsor Brian Leishman (Independent (affiliation)), on Monday, 1 September 2025, in the House of Commons. It is signed by 56 members in total.

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Armed Forces Training Contract and Elbit Systems

That this House is deeply concerned by reports that the Ministry of Defence is considering awarding a £2 billion, 15-year Army Collective Training Service contract to Elbit Systems UK, a wholly owned subsidiary of Elbit Systems Limited, Israel’s largest arms manufacturer; notes that Elbit supplies 85 per cent of the drones used by the Israeli military, has been directly implicated in war crimes committed in Gaza, and was named in the July 2025 report of the UN Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories as central to Israel’s plausibly genocidal conduct; further notes warnings from parliamentarians, human rights organisations and legal experts that awarding this contract would entrench Elbit at the heart of the UK’s defence infrastructure, with serious reputational, legal and moral consequences; believes that proceeding with this deal would risk making the UK more complicit in war crimes being committed against the Palestinian people; and urges the Government to rule out awarding any UK defence contracts to Elbit Systems or its subsidiaries.

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Secondary information

Type

Early day motion

Reference

1784 

Session

2024-26

Other sponsors

Kim Johnson

Jon Trickett

Jeremy Corbyn

Richard Burgon

Bell Ribeiro-Addy

Subjects

Contracts Armed forces Training Elbit Systems

Link

View this Early day motion on edm.parliament.uk