To ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will make it his policy that no representatives of Government with United Nations records of human rights abuse are invited to the British Army equipment exhibition; and if he will make a statement.

Invitations to the British Army equipment exhibition are considered on a case-by-case basis with all relevant factors taken into account. An invitation does not, of course, imply that we are prepared to authorise the sale of any particular item of equipment on display.