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Al-Yamamah Arms Agreement

May I take my hon. and learned Friend back to when he referred to the Attorney-General coming to the decision that the investigation was going nowhere? The SFO was investigating under the law that the Government tightened in 2002. Does he share my surprise at the position of the hon. Member for Twickenham (Dr. Cable)? The hon. Gentleman said that British Aerospace openly said, ““Yes, we paid, but it was to the Saudi Government. It was all out in the open,”” and he said that everything in Saudi Arabia is in the public domain. Does that approach not suggest that, after two and half years, the investigation was going nowhere, because everything was out in the open and there had been no prosecution brought in this country, and that the investigation was just dragging on and going nowhere?