Scott Report

Scott Report
Type	report
Founded	1992
Author(s)
Subjects	Arms-to-Iraq

The Scott Report (the Report of the Inquiry into the Export of Defence Equipment and Dual-Use Goods to Iraq and Related Prosecutions) was a judicial inquiry commissioned in 1992 purportedly to investigate the Arms-to-Iraq affair. The report was conducted by Sir Richard Scott, then a Lord Justice of Appeal. It was published in 1996.

Secrecy

Much of the report was secret. Following the publication of the report the then Shadow Foreign Secretary Robin Cook called for implementation of the inquiry's recommendations in full. However, since coming to power in May 1997, Tony Blair's Labour government failed to introduce the changes advised by the Scott report.

"The current legislation is appallingly outdated ... it allows export controls to be used for any purpose whatever the government desires to use them for" said Lord Scott in 2001.

In November 2001 it was revealed the directors of Matrix Churchill would receive an undisclosed amount of compensation.

 

Related Documents

Title	Type	Publication date	Author(s)	Description
Document:In Defence of the Indefensible	article	1997	David Guyatt	A critique of the Scott Report on the illegal export of military equipment to Iraq through the 1980's
Document:Maggie's Guilty Secret	article	December 2013	John Hughes-Wilson	A brief resume of the Arms-to-Iraq affair by a former colonel on NATO's international political staff in Brussels. It revisits the abortive rescue of US diplomatic staff held hostage by Iran under President Carter, paving the way for the UK to supply arms to both sides in the soon-to-follow Iran-Iraq war in covert defiance of UN sanctions. The UK establishment has been engaged in a monumental cover-up ever since.

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