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Military Equipment: Israel

Volume 467: debated on Thursday 15 November 2007

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Nick Harvey

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what the value was of UK military-related imports from Israel in each of the last five years. (163049)

Mr. Bob Ainsworth

The total value of UK imports of defence equipment from Israel, for the last five years where data are available, are given in the following table.

Identified UK imports of defence equipment

£ million1

2002

5

2003

42

2004

8

2005

1

2006

2

1 Rounded to nearest £ million at current prices

Data are based on HM Revenue and Customs information relating to defence equipment reported to UK Customs. Defence equipment is identified by an agreed set of tariff codes intended to capture the movement of military equipment.