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Member

Speaking in the House of Lords on 19 November 2025

Debate

Crime and Policing Bill

Contribution

ROWA Clause 1(7) does not apply to them. Some of our NATO allies and our Ukrainian friends, who we train in this country, issue gravity and flick-knives for paratroopers and airmen for use in self-rescue during parachuting mishaps. They are also used in Poland, Germany and the USA, and appear in the NATO stock-numbering store system, which allows any member of the UK Armed Forces to draw them. An overseas air person on joint exercise in the UK would be at risk of being picked up and prosecuted should they have them in public or even be in possession of them.

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