Written Question·Department for Business and Trade·UIN 79981
Arms Trade: Israel
Tabled: 10 October 2025
Answered: 20 October 2025
Question
Manuela Perteghella
Liberal Democrat — Stratford-on-Avon
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether he has made an assessment of the potential implications for the Government’s arms export licensing regime of the judgment in the recent case concerning the sale of F-35 components to Israel.
Answer
Chris BryantIn the judgment handed down on 30 June, the Divisional Court accepted the Government’s submission that the only way for the UK to ensure that components supplied from the UK to the global F-35 programme do not reach Israel is for it to suspend all exports...
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