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Strategic Export Controls

I commend my hon. Friend on yet another good report. It is an annual event, and he performs admirably. If he does not mind, I shall talk through him to the Minister. Surely my hon. Friend agrees that we cannot afford to repeat what happened at Oslo, where the British representative was left—to put it mildly, as anyone will know who has read the text—effectively trying to perform what could only be described as the last-ditch defence of the Alamo. It did not do Britain's reputation on the matter any good. More than anything, because there is clearly a split among Ministries, the least that the British Government could do is to come up with a cohesive and defensible line. One hopes, as my hon. Friend says, that we would go for a wholesale ban, as it is completely contradictory to do otherwise.