Asked by: Anum Qaisar (Scottish National Party - Airdrie and Shotts)
Question to the Department for Business and Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether any UK-based artificial intelligence companies have export licenses to Israel.
Answered by Alan Mak - Minister of State (Department for Business and Trade) (jointly with the Cabinet Office)
We continue to monitor the situation in Israel and Gaza closely. The UK has not granted any export licences to UK-based AI companies to export to Israel.
All export licence applications are assessed on a case-by-case basis against the Strategic Export Licensing Criteria. The UK operates one of the most robust and transparent export control regimes in the world.
Asked by: Anum Qaisar (Scottish National Party - Airdrie and Shotts)
Question to the Department for Business and Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether export control licensing requirements for AI weapons systems include checks on the (a) accuracy and (b) reliability of those systems.
Answered by Alan Mak - Minister of State (Department for Business and Trade) (jointly with the Cabinet Office)
HM Government takes its export control responsibilities very seriously and we operate one of the most robust and transparent export control regimes in the world. This is an important lever for promoting both UK prosperity and national and global security.
We rigorously assess every application on a case-by-case basis against strict assessment criteria, the Strategic Export Licensing Criteria (the SELC).
The SELC provide a thorough risk assessment framework for export licence applications and require us to think hard about the impact of providing equipment and its capabilities. We will not license the export of equipment where to do so would be inconsistent with the SELC. These are not decisions we take lightly.
Asked by: Anum Qaisar (Scottish National Party - Airdrie and Shotts)
Question to the Department for Business and Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, in the context of the UK’s accession to Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (a) with which organisations and groups the Government has consulted on the digital provisions of that agreement, and (b) whether she has received legal advice on the potential effect of that agreement on (i) existing domestic data protection legislation and (ii) the UK's ability to enact new provisions for domestic data provision.
Answered by Nigel Huddleston - Financial Secretary (HM Treasury)
In preparation for accession to the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP), the Government ran one of its largest consultation exercises, consulting with individuals, businesses, business associations, NGOs and public sector bodies, receiving almost 150,000 responses.
CPTPP safeguards the UK’s high standards of personal data protection as set out in the Data Protection Act 2018 and UK GDPR, and locks in a requirement for personal data to be protected in all countries that are party to the agreement.