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To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, with
reference to the letter to her of 11 November 2021 from ten hon. Members calling on
the Government to blacklist the Israeli NSO Group in light of cyberattacks carried
out on UK soil against refugees, activists and parliamentarians by Gulf states including
Bahrain and the UAE; when she plans to reply to that letter; if she will make her
policy to (i) impose a trade sanction on the NSO Group, (ii) suspend the Gulf Strategy
Fund pending an independent inquiry into the human rights implications of its programmes,
(iii) suspend UK spyware licences and cybersecurity contracts to Bahrain, the UAE
and Saudi Arabia pending an independent investigation and (iv) publicly raise concerns
with the Governments of Bahrain, the UAE and Saudi Arabia on their role in cyberattacks
carried out in the UK using Pegasus software.
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