Committees on Arms ExportsLetter to the Chair of the Committees from the Rt Hon Vince Cable MP, Secretary of State for Business Innovation and Skills

UK TRADE & INVESTMENT DEFENCE & SECURITY ORGANISATION (UKTI DSO) LIST OF PRIORITY MARKETS

In my letter to you of 8 December 2011, in response to your letter of 21 November, I said I would make available to the Committees on Arms Export Controls the UKTI DSO list of priority markets once a review of them had been completed.

This has now happened, and the new list of priority markets is: Australia, Brazil, Canada, Europe/NATO/EU (as a collective market), India, Indonesia, Japan, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Libya, Malaysia, Qatar, Oman, South Korea, Thailand, Turkey, UAE and USA.

Based on an assessment of the priorities of UK industry, Algeria, Brunei, Iraq, Mexico and Pakistan have been removed from the list of priority markets.

I would be very happy to discuss this with you when I appear in front of the Committees tomorrow.

6 February 2012