Oral QuestionForeign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Whether his Department's guidance advising against trade with illegal settlements in the West Bank extends to public bodies.

Tabled: 14 July 2021Answered: 20 July 2021

Asked by

Andy Slaughter

LabourHammersmith and Chiswick

Answering Minister

the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs

Answer from Hansard

The Prime Minister

On the question of assets, we are using the interest on the assets to help fund Ukraine and we are looking, with others, at whether it is possible to go further. Obviously, I will update the House if that is possible. But I have to say that, at a time when defence and security in Europe and the UK must be ramped up for all the reasons that the hon. Gentleman readily understands, the SNP maintaining its position of wanting to get rid of the single most effective deterrent that we have—the nuclear deterrent—really has to be explained in its historical context.