Asked on the BBC's Newsnight programme about the subject of arms sales to the regime, Mr Hammond replied that the arms sales helped create "British jobs".
With hindsight, it is clear that an entirely new approach needs to be developed in which the medical community, ie practitioners and relevant scientists, should be included in any programme of vaccination and, armed with appropriate information, they should be charged with the responsibility of explaining the importance and significance of vaccination within their local communities.
Such, however, was the scale and intensity of the CIA's programme to arm the Afghan mujahideen that it couldn't but retard political processes in Pakistan.
To calculate the base case probability of a CLABSI in the programme arm of the decision tree, we multiplied the probability of CLABSI by the incidence rate ratio (0.19) from the trial.
It emerged on Monday that Congress had secretly given its backing to a CIA programme to arm and train "moderate", non-Islamist Syrian factions in Jordan, and provide a variety of small arms and anti-tank rockets.
Pressure on the £31bn defence budget has been compounded by delays and cost overruns in a string of arms procurement programmes, including the expensive and controversial Eurofighter project.
The objective of this study was to assess the effectiveness of this intervention programme on the prevalence of arm, shoulder and neck symptoms, reduction of exposure to risk factors, and sick leave in a population of computer workers.
Examples of implemented interventions are an individual workstation check, a visit to the occupational health physician and an education programme on the prevention of arm, shoulder and neck symptoms.
Examples of proposed interventions were: at the individual level: an individual workstation check and an eyesight check; at the group level: an education programme on the prevention of arm, shoulder and neck symptoms and training on handling stress in the workplace.
"I raised the issue of arms supplies, as did Emily [Thornberry], and a television programme that indicated pretty strong evidence of cluster bombs was there.
