Armed Conflict (Requirements) Bill

Presentation and First Reading (Standing Order No. 57)

Dr Ellie Chowns, supported by Siân Berry, Carla Denyer, Adrian Ramsay, Hannah Spencer, John McDonnell, Clive Lewis, Ben Lake and Claire Hanna, presented a Bill to require that, before armed forces may be deployed for armed conflict, a Minister of the Crown must publish a statement setting out the reasons for the deployment, an assessment of its compliance with international law, the objective of the deployment and an assessment of the viability of that objective; to require the approval in advance of any such deployment by a resolution of the House of Commons; to provide for equivalent requirements to apply to the use of UK military bases for the deployment of foreign armed forces for armed conflict; and for connected purposes.

Bill read the First time; to be read a Second time on Friday 6 March, and to be printed (Bill 396).