"The Business Secretary has said he cannot identify the two companies given licences last year to send to Syria two chemicals which can be used as precursors in the production of weapons such as sarin, due to the “possible reputational damage” that would be caused by making their names public.
The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) has said that the chemicals, which were due to be sent to a company in Damascus at a time when Syria’s civil war had been raging for 10 months, were for a legitimate use and none of the companies had done anything wrong."
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