Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant the Answer of 29 March 2018 to Question 133735 on Occupied Territories, for what reason the data is not being collected.

We are confident that our robust process for assessing export licence applications manages the risk that UK-supplied equipment might be used in a way that is inconsistent with the Consolidated EU and National Arms Export Licensing Criteria. That process includes a rigorous assessment of the risks of diversion. In addition, we judge that it would not be practical or effective to carry out verification visits to end users in country. We keep extant licences under review and will revoke a licence if we judge that the export of the items covered by the licence would no longer be consistent with the Consolidated Criteria. We do not generally collect information on whether items granted an export licence are exported, or how they are then used.