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Ministry of Defence

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Mr. Todd: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will list the occasions on which defence personnel have attended, as part of their duties, promotional events for UK military equipment sales in (a) 1998-99 and (b) 1999-2000; and what the estimated costs were of such attendance in each year since 1996. [138310] Dr. Moonie: Within the Ministry of Defence the Defence Export Services Organisation (DESO) is responsible for co-ordinating Government support to industry in promoting sales of UK military equipment, with other parts of MOD assisting as required. Promotional events in the United Kingdom and overseas attended by defence personnel range from major defence equipment exhibitions and Defence Industry Days (DIDs) to demonstrations of individual items of equipment for potential customers. DIDs are held onboard HM ships when in foreign ports as part of the Fleet visit programme. There is no central record of visits to such events or the associated attendance costs and it is therefore not possible to provide the information requested. Major exhibitions and DIDs at which DESO has been represented in support of the UK defence industry between 1998-2000 include: 1998 Asian Aerospace, Singapore TRIDEX, Abu Dhabi FIDAE, Chile DSA, Malaysia Aerospace Africa, South Africa Eurosatory, France Farnborough International Air Show, UK Defendory, Greece MADEX, South Korea Euronaval, France Seoul Air Show, South Korea DEXSA, South Africa Aero India, India DIDs Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates Valparaiso, Chile Gdynia, Poland Baltimore, USA Rio de Janeiro, Brazil La Guaira, Venezuela 1999 Australia Air Show, Australia IDEX, Abu Dhabi LAD, Brazil IDET, Czech Republic IMDEX Asia, Singapore Paris Air Show, France Aerospace North America, Canada DSEi, UK IDEF, Turkey DEFEXPO, India Dubai Air Show, Dubai LIMA, Malaysia DIDs Durban, South Africa Norfolk, USA Manila, Philippines Sydney, Australia Vera Cruz, Mexico Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Athens, Greece 2000 Pacific 2000, Australia Asian Aerospace, Singapore TRIDEX, Abu Dhabi FIDAE, Chile DSA, Malaysia SOFEX, Jordan Eurosatory, France Farnborough International Air Show, UK Africa Aerospace and Defence, South Africa Defence Aisa, Philippines Defendory, Greece Euronaval, France DIDs Alexandria, Egypt Mumbai, India Singapore Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam Sydney, Australia Pusan, South Korea Tokyo, Japan Istanbul, Turkey

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

356 c741-2W; 138310

Session

1999-00

Subjects

Armed forces Costs Arms trade Defence equipment Exhibitions Trade promotion

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