PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Arms Trade: Saudi Arabia (24 April 2020)

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what assessment she has made of the effect on UK export licensing of the 11 December 2019 communication to the ICC calling on it to investigate UK Government-authorised exports of arms to members of the Saudi/UAE-led coalition in Yemen.

Asked by:
Zarah Sultana (Independent)

The Consolidated EU and National Arms Export Licensing Criteria, last updated in a Written Ministerial Statement on 25 March 2014, remains the policy for assessing all licence applications.

Our assessment of each export licence against the Consolidated Criteria takes into account our obligations under the Arms Trade Treaty and other relevant rules of international law.

Answered by:
Greg Hands (Conservative)
4 May 2020