British Prime Minister David Cameron refused a proposal to launch an inquiry into the delivery of UK-manufactured arms to Saudi Arabia and stressed that the Conservative Cabinet supported the legitimate Yemeni government as a means of preventing terrorist attacks against British people being planned there.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) — British Prime Minister David Cameron dismissed Wednesday Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn 's proposal to launch an inquiry into the delivery of UK-manufactured arms to Saudi Arabia.

According to Corbyn, such a probe justified in light of the violations of international humanitarian law committed by the Saudi-led coalition when striking civilian targets in Yemen, as depicted in a UN report sent to the United Nations Security Council last week.

"As the Right Honourable gentleman knows, we have the strictest rules for arms exports [of] almost any country anywhere in the world," Cameron said during Prime Minister's Question Time in the House of Commons, as quoted by The Independent.

He stressed that the Conservative Cabinet supported the legitimate Yemeni government as a means of preventing terrorist attacks against British people being planned in there.

Cameron added that he refused to "run a foreign policy by press release" and wanted "a foreign policy which is in the interests of the British people."

Yemen has been engulfed in a military conflict between the government and Houthi rebels, the country’s main opposition faction, for more than a year. Since March, a Saudi-led coalition has been conducting airstrikes against Houthi positions at the request of Yemeni President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi.

Last week, the UK government released arms sales statistics demonstrating that British arms companies had boosted their sales to Saudi Arabia by more than 100 times over the course of last year — from 9 million pounds (almost $13 million) in April-June 2015 to over 1 billion pounds ($1.43 billion) in July-September.