Question to the Department for International Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what assessment her Department has made in the last twelve months of the adequacy of the UK's arms export controls.

Export controls are kept under regular review to ensure that they continue to properly address the threats we face, keep pace with new technologies, and adapt to changing circumstances, while providing an efficient service which does not impose an unworkable administrative burden on the defence and security industry. HM Government is satisfied that the Strategic Export Licensing Criteria provides a thorough risk assessment framework for assessing all export licence applications. An export licence will not be granted (or, if extant, it would be revoked) if incompatible with the Criteria.