Sir Julian Lewis: I hope I am not stretching the boundaries of the debate excessively, but I would be interested to know whether the agreement has any implications for defence exports to India and, if it does, what safeguards would be in place, given the unhealthily close relationship between India and Russia.

[Andrew Griffith {Shadow Secretary of State for Business and Trade}: The document produced by the Select Committee lays out the impact for defence, modest as I believe it is. I will leave it to those on the Government Front Bench to answer my right hon. Friend’s important question about security –

Chris Bryant {The Minister of State, Department for Business and Trade} rose –

Andrew Griffith: I will happily give way to the Minister.

Chris Bryant: I wonder if I could talk through the hon. Member for Arundel and South Downs (Andrew Griffith) to the right hon. Member for New Forest East (Sir Julian Lewis): our export control system for any exports from the UK into any other country in the world bears in mind diversion from one country to another. That is a very important part of what we look at. The FTA does not affect that process at all.

Andrew Griffith: I hope that my right hon. Friend is reassured to a degree by the Minister’s response. …]