They certainly had a couple of Alpha Jets for a while, and in fact they had a "better" spin clearance than hawk - still erect only, but cleared for more spins. Used to be a marketing issue when the two were the main competitors in the market - it's a kind of stupid thing to be a selling point, because the idea is to train to get out of a spin, not see how long you can stay there. Hawk was limited because the aircraft actually speeds up in the spin and so eventually you get to a speed where the loads become excessive, whereas AJ is more like a stable speed, so you can keep going longer.
Since in both cases it was "many" rotations you were cleared for (my recollection is 8 for Hawk and 12 for AJ, but those numbers are VERY hazily remembered) it really was a very pointless thing to argue about.