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Liam Fox
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The United Kingdom is committed to the joint comprehensive plan of action, and we want Iran to derive the economic benefits of that agreement. As the hon. Gentleman knows, there are two particular difficulties for British companies. One is access to finance for doing business in Iran, and the second is that it is often difficult for companies to know who the end point they are dealing with is, and whether they may in fact be part of the regime that would require sanctions to be applied. We work with British businesses to try to help them, but we understand that it is a real minefield.
The United Kingdom is committed to the joint comprehensive plan of action, and we want Iran to derive the economic benefits of that agreement. As the hon. Gentleman knows, there are two particular difficulties for British companies. One is access to finance for doing business in Iran, and the second is that it is often difficult for companies to know who the end point they are dealing with is, and whether they may in fact be part of the regime that would require sanctions to be applied. We work with British businesses to try to help them, but we understand that it is a real minefield.
Answered by
Liam Fox
(Conservative)
Asked by
Christian Matheson
(Labour)
Answering body
Department for International Trade
Type
Oral answers to questions
European and British companies trading lawfully with Iran may soon face sanctions from the Trump regime, which has withdrawn from the Iran deal. When that happens, will the Secretary of State stand up for British companies, or will he cave in to Trump?
Subjects
Overseas trade; Sanctions; Iran
Date
15 November 2018
Reference
649 c421
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
House
House of Commons
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what reports he has received on the activities of Iranian troops in Syria.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what reports he has received on the activities of Iranian troops in Syria.
Asked by
David Morris
(Conservative)
Answered by
Liam Fox
(Conservative)
Answering body
Ministry of Defence
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Tabled on
27 April 2011
For answer on
3 May 2011
Answered on
11 May 2011
None.
Subjects
Armed forces; Iran; Syria
Date
11 May 2011
Reference
54030; 527 c1209W
House
House of Commons
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what assessment his Department has made of the development of Iran's heavy water research reactor.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what assessment his Department has made of the development of Iran's heavy water research reactor.
Asked by
Matthew Offord
(Conservative)
Answered by
Liam Fox
(Conservative)
Answering body
Ministry of Defence
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Tabled on
3 February 2011
For answer on
7 February 2011
Answered on
14 February 2011
Iran is constructing a 40 megawatt heavy water reactor near Arak. Iran says this reactor, also known as the IR-40, is primarily intended for medical purposes. This type of reactor could also be used for plutonium production, and the UN has assessed the heavy water research reactor programme as proliferation sensitive. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has confirmed that construction is continuing in violation of UN Security Council Resolutions (most recently UNSCR 1929 of 2010), which require that Iran suspend its proliferation sensitive uranium enrichment and heavy water-related projects. The UK continues to implement all UN Security Council resolutions relating to Iran and shares the concerns of the IAEA.
Subjects
Nuclear power; Iran
Date
14 February 2011
Reference
38979; 523 c644-5W
House
House of Commons
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what assessment he has made of Iran's potential nuclear weapons capability; and if he will make a statement.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what assessment he has made of Iran's potential nuclear weapons capability; and if he will make a statement.
Asked by
Andrea Leadsom
(Conservative)
Answered by
Liam Fox
(Conservative)
Answering body
Ministry of Defence
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Tabled on
25 January 2011
For answer on
31 January 2011
Answered on
31 January 2011
I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave today to the hon. Member for Watford (Richard Harrington).
Subjects
Nuclear power; Iran
Date
31 January 2011
Reference
36754; 522 c509W
House
House of Commons
There is always a need to maintain the dialogue, if only to make it clear to Iran that there is no weakening in the position of the international community. It is also essential that, as well as just talking, real measures are taken. If we are serious about the Iran issue, we need to look at it this way. It is a binary question: Iran will either become a nuclear weapons state or it will not. If we are intent on the latter course, the international community needs to act as well as speak. At the present time, that primarily means ensuring that the financial sanctions, which are having an effect on the regime in Tehran, are fully implemented and that no domestic considerations are put ahead of international security and well-being.
There is always a need to maintain the dialogue, if only to make it clear to Iran that there is no weakening in the position of the international community. It is also essential that, as well as just talking, real measures are taken. If we are serious about the Iran issue, we need to look at it this way. It is a binary question: Iran will either become a nuclear weapons state or it will not. If we are intent on the latter course, the international community needs to act as well as speak. At the present time, that primarily means ensuring that the financial sanctions, which are having an effect on the regime in Tehran, are fully implemented and that no domestic considerations are put ahead of international security and well-being.
Answered by
Liam Fox
(Conservative)
Asked by
Russell Brown
(Labour)
Answering body
Ministry of Defence
Type
Oral answers to questions
I shall forgive the Secretary of State that slip of the tongue. Has he made any assessment of the breakdown of the P5 plus 1 negotiations in Istanbul, and can he say whether there are any plans to resume them?
Subjects
Nuclear power; Iran
Date
31 January 2011
Reference
522 c572
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
House
House of Commons
Iran does not yet have nuclear weapons as assessed. However, it continues to pursue uranium enrichment and the construction of a heavy water research reactor, both of which have military potential, in defiance of UN Security Council resolutions. We share the very serious concerns of the International Atomic Energy Agency about Iran not having adequately explained evidence of possible military dimensions to its nuclear programme. We will therefore respond accordingly.
Iran does not yet have nuclear weapons as assessed. However, it continues to pursue uranium enrichment and the construction of a heavy water research reactor, both of which have military potential, in defiance of UN Security Council resolutions. We share the very serious concerns of the International Atomic Energy Agency about Iran not having adequately explained evidence of possible military dimensions to its nuclear programme. We will therefore respond accordingly.
Answered by
Liam Fox
(Conservative)
Asked by
Lord Harrington of Watford
(Conservative)
Answering body
Ministry of Defence
Type
Oral answers to questions
What assessment he has made of Iran's potential nuclear weapons capability; and if he will make a statement.
Subjects
Nuclear power; Iran
Date
31 January 2011
Reference
522 c571
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
House
House of Commons
The right hon. Gentleman makes a useful point. With the United Nations having made the assessment that it has, it is clear that we have a moral obligation to carry forward the actions outlined, not least the economic sanctions, which are now beginning to have an effect. For Iran to have a nuclear weapon would be the worst of all possible options for global security, not least because it is likely to usher in not only the end of non-proliferation but a nuclear arms race in the world's most unstable region.
The right hon. Gentleman makes a useful point. With the United Nations having made the assessment that it has, it is clear that we have a moral obligation to carry forward the actions outlined, not least the economic sanctions, which are now beginning to have an effect. For Iran to have a nuclear weapon would be the worst of all possible options for global security, not least because it is likely to usher in not only the end of non-proliferation but a nuclear arms race in the world's most unstable region.
Answered by
Liam Fox
(Conservative)
Asked by
Denis MacShane
(Independent (affiliation))
Answering body
Ministry of Defence
Type
Oral answers to questions
May I invite the Secretary of State to read the article in the current edition of International Affairs by Professor Nigel Biggar, the regius professor of moral and pastoral theology at Oxford? He argues that"““one lesson that we should not learn from Iraq is never again to violate the letter of international law and intervene militarily in a sovereign state without Security Council authorization. The law's authority can be undermined as much by the UN's failure to enforce it, as by states taking it into their own hands.””"
The one thing that might be worse than action against Iran is Iran possessing a nuclear weapon.
Subjects
Nuclear power; Iran
Date
31 January 2011
Reference
522 c571-2
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
House
House of Commons
The Government remain committed, including in the coalition agreement, to the renewal of our nuclear deterrent. As I am sure my hon. Friend would expect, I will be campaigning to ensure that the next Parliament is not a hung Parliament, but one in which we have a minority—[Interruption]—a majority Conservative Government.
The Government remain committed, including in the coalition agreement, to the renewal of our nuclear deterrent. As I am sure my hon. Friend would expect, I will be campaigning to ensure that the next Parliament is not a hung Parliament, but one in which we have a minority—[Interruption]—a majority Conservative Government.
Answered by
Liam Fox
(Conservative)
Asked by
Julian Lewis
(Conservative)
Answering body
Ministry of Defence
Type
Oral answers to questions
What sort of signal does it send to Iran and other hostile would-be proliferators that our nuclear deterrent could be put at ransom in the event of another hung Parliament, as a result of our not having signed the key contracts and the hostility towards the replacement of Trident evinced by the Liberal Democrats?
Subjects
Nuclear power; Iran
Date
31 January 2011
Reference
522 c572
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
House
House of Commons
My hon. Friend raises perhaps one of the most important questions at the present time, which is: how do we assess Iran's intentions and how do we assess the time scale? Despite his long experience, I think that Mr Dagan was wrong to insinuate that we should always look at the more optimistic end of the spectrum. We know from previous experience, not least from what happened in North Korea, that the international community can be caught out assuming that things are rosier than they actually are. We should therefore be clear that it is entirely possible that Iran may be on the 2012 end of that spectrum, and act in accordance with that warning.
My hon. Friend raises perhaps one of the most important questions at the present time, which is: how do we assess Iran's intentions and how do we assess the time scale? Despite his long experience, I think that Mr Dagan was wrong to insinuate that we should always look at the more optimistic end of the spectrum. We know from previous experience, not least from what happened in North Korea, that the international community can be caught out assuming that things are rosier than they actually are. We should therefore be clear that it is entirely possible that Iran may be on the 2012 end of that spectrum, and act in accordance with that warning.
Answered by
Liam Fox
(Conservative)
Asked by
Lord Harrington of Watford
(Conservative)
Answering body
Ministry of Defence
Type
Oral answers to questions
I thank my right hon. Friend for that reply, but in the light of recent comments by Meir Dagan, who recently retired as the head of Mossad, about Iran's first nuclear weapon possibly being ready by the middle of this decade, will he make a statement on how the Government intend to proceed in their approach to Iran's nuclear programme?
Subjects
Nuclear power; Iran
Date
31 January 2011
Reference
522 c571
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
House
House of Commons
What assessment he has made of Iran's potential nuclear weapons capability; and if he will make a statement.
What assessment he has made of Iran's potential nuclear weapons capability; and if he will make a statement.
Asked by
Lord Harrington of Watford
(Conservative)
Answered by
Liam Fox
(Conservative)
Answering body
Ministry of Defence
Oral questions - Lead
Status
Answered
Tabled on
25 January 2011
For answer on
31 January 2011
Answered on
31 January 2011
Iran does not yet have nuclear weapons as assessed. However, it continues to pursue uranium enrichment and the construction of a heavy water research reactor, both of which have military potential, in defiance of UN Security Council resolutions. We share the very serious concerns of the International Atomic Energy Agency about Iran not having adequately explained evidence of possible military dimensions to its nuclear programme. We will therefore respond accordingly.
Subjects
Nuclear power; Iran
Date
31 January 2011
Reference
36736; 522 c571
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
House
House of Commons
Debate on a motion to consider the matter of Iraq: future strategic relationship. Agreed to on question.
Debate on a motion to consider the matter of Iraq: future strategic relationship. Agreed to on question.
Lead member
Lord Hutton of Furness
Answering member
Liam Fox
Department
Ministry of Defence
Type
Debates
Subjects
Armed forces; Armed conflict; Development aid; Women; Inquiries; Human rights; Iraq; Foreign policy; Foreign relations; Peacekeeping operations; Politics and government; Press freedom; Terrorism; Security; Religion; Trade; Violence; Iran; Reconstruction
Date
14 January 2009
Reference
486 c231-313
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
House
House of Commons
Debate on a motion for the adjournment on defence in the world.
Debate on a motion for the adjournment on defence in the world.
Lead member
Lord Browne of Ladyton
Answering member
Liam Fox
Department
Ministry of Defence
Type
Adjournment debates
Subjects
Armed forces; Defence; Armed conflict; Deployment; Finance; Iraq; Police; Nuclear weapons; Peacekeeping operations; Politics and government; Navy; Ministry of Defence; Terrorism; Training; USA; Afghanistan; NATO; Russia; Iran; Trident
Date
1 February 2007
Reference
456 c386-464
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
House
House of Commons
Who represents the Crown Agents in (a) Iran, (b) the Gulf States and (c) Oman; what criteria were used in their selection; and what services they offer. - Inc fact that Crown Agents local agents in the countries named are listed in its report and accounts for 1995 (copies in...
Who represents the Crown Agents in (a) Iran, (b) the Gulf States and (c) Oman; what criteria were used in their selection; and what services they offer. - Inc fact that Crown Agents local agents in the countries named are listed in its report and accounts for 1995 (copies in...
Asked by
Ann Clwyd
(Labour)
Answered by
Liam Fox
(Conservative)
Answering body
Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
For answer on
14 January 1997
Answered on
14 January 1997
Mrs. Clwyd: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs who represents the Crown Agents in (a) Iran, (b) the
Gulf States and (c) Oman; what criteria were used in their selection; and what services they offer. [10670]
Dr. Fox: The Crown Agents' local agents in the countries named are listed in its report and accounts for 1995, copies of which are
in the Library. The Crown Agents have since also appointed Transgulf Shipping as an agent in the United Arab Emirates. The
representative services provided include inspection, shipping, freight forwarding, cargo handling and courier services in relation
to Crown Agents' services in the region. The firms concerned were selected by Crown Agents on the basis of their capabilities in the
relevant services.
Subjects
Iran; Gulf states; Oman; Crown Agents
Date
14 January 1997
Reference
10670; 288 c208W
House
House of Commons