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Adjournment debate on Thursday, 22 February 2007, in the House of Commons, led by Roger Berry. The answering member was Jim Fitzpatrick.


Strategic Export Controls

Westminster Hall adjournment debate on strategic export controls.


Secondary information

Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
457 c147-88WH 
Session
2006-07
Department
Department of Trade and Industry
Chamber / Committee
Westminster Hall
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Proceeding contributions
Richard Burden | 457 c154WH (Link to this contribution) I am finishing my intervention now, Mrs. Anderson. My second question to the Minister is this: what ...
Roger Berry | 457 c154WH (Link to this contribution) That was an excellent intervention, which I entirely endorse, and I look forward to the Minister’s r...
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John Stanley | 457 c156-61WH (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Kingswood (Roger Berry) who, once again, has given th...
Judy Mallaber | 457 c161-6WH (Link to this contribution) I am pleased to speak in the debate, and I too pay tribute to our Chairman, my hon. Friend the Membe...
Lord Bruce of Bennachie | 457 c166-70WH (Link to this contribution) I want to make a few comments, but first I want to pick up what the hon. Member for Amber Valley (Ju...
Baroness Kramer | 457 c170-1WH (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the Committee on its report, which, again, is of the high quality that its reports ha...
Peter Luff | 457 c154WH (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for giving way again. When the Minister replies, I hope that he ...
Roger Berry | 457 c154-6WH (Link to this contribution) I welcome that intervention. The issue mentioned by my hon. Friend the Member for Birmingham, North...
John Stanley | 457 c178WH (Link to this contribution) Would my hon. Friend agree that following the destruction of an out-of-date weather satellite and th...
Lord Bruce of Bennachie | 457 c171WH (Link to this contribution) I am listening closely to what my hon. Friend is saying, and I concur. It is worth adding that the U...
Baroness Kramer | 457 c171-5WH (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for those comments. There may well be other ongoing prosecutions. Indeed, we ...
Tobias Ellwood | 457 c175-8WH (Link to this contribution) It is a delight, Mrs. Anderson, to participate in this debate. On behalf of Her Majesty’s Opposition...
Jim Fitzpatrick | 457 c180-2WH (Link to this contribution) I thank the Quadripartite Committee for its report and congratulate it on producing it. I add my app...
Tobias Ellwood | 457 c178-9WH (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for the Chairman’s comments. On page 80 of the report it is made clear that there are ...
Roger Berry | 457 c178WH (Link to this contribution) That is because, apart from the UK, EU countries did not define what the embargo meant; the UK was t...
Tobias Ellwood | 457 c178WH (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend makes an astute point. The ground-based missile fired on January 17 that took o...
Roger Berry | 457 c183WH (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the Minister for giving way again; I hope not to intervene too often. Is not the de...
Jim Fitzpatrick | 457 c183WH (Link to this contribution) I do not disagree with my hon. Friend’s assessment. He has made the point very effectively that we o...
Roger Berry | 457 c183WH (Link to this contribution) The Government have dealt with that issue in other legislation. For example, in the Anti-terrorism, ...
Jim Fitzpatrick | 457 c183WH (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a very important point. Clearly, lessons can be learned from other legislation....
Lord Bruce of Bennachie | 457 c186WH (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the Minister for what he has helpfully just said. Does he accept that there is a ce...
Jim Fitzpatrick | 457 c184-6WH (Link to this contribution) I hope that the right hon. Gentleman will forgive me for nodding at him. I was nodding not in assent...
Roger Berry | 457 c186WH (Link to this contribution) This is a request for information to be given at some future time. The methodology for applying crit...
Jim Fitzpatrick | 457 c186WH (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman makes a powerful point. I am sure that that situation would be of interest,...
John Stanley | 457 c183WH (Link to this contribution) Before the Minister moves on from the registration of brokers in the UK, I ask that the Government r...
Jim Fitzpatrick | 457 c186-8WH (Link to this contribution) I am happy to take on board my hon. Friend’s request for further information. I note the points that...
Jim Fitzpatrick | 457 c188WH (Link to this contribution) I take on board that clarification. The hon. Member for Bournemouth, East raised the prospect of a ...
Roger Berry | 457 c147-9WH (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to introduce the latest report from the Quadripartite Committee on strategic export...
Peter Luff | 457 c149-50WH (Link to this contribution) I do not know whether this is an appropriate point in the hon. Gentleman’s speech to ask about the r...
Speaker | 457 c154WH (Link to this contribution) Order. I urge the hon. Gentleman to keep his interventions fairly brief.
Roger Berry | 457 c150-3WH (Link to this contribution) I welcome the hon. Gentleman’s intervention, as I do not understand the Government’s position either...
Richard Burden | 457 c153-4WH (Link to this contribution) I share my hon. Friend’s frustration on this matter. Will he invite the Minister to go a little furt...
Subjects
Department for International Development Arms trade Department of Trade and Industry Licensing Export controls Revenue and Customs
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