Committees on Arms ExportsLetter from the Chair of the Committees to the Rt Hon William Hague MP, First Secretary of State and Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, Foreign and Commonwealth Office

I attach a further copy of my letter to you of October 24 to which I requested a reply “at an early date”.

In the interests of transparency, to which both the Government and the Committees have stated that they are committed, the Committees wish to make public forthwith the Government’s answers to the CAEC’s questions on the Quarter 3 and Quarter 4 2010 Arms Export Licensing information by the Government subject to the procedure for redactions set out in my letter.

I should be grateful therefore for your response to my letter not later than by the time the House returns on January 10.

16 December 2011