Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that signatories to the (a) Ottawa Treaty and (b) Convention on Cluster Munitions are upholding their obligations.

As a State Party to both the Convention on Cluster Munitions and the Ottawa Treaty, the UK fulfils its obligations. The UK discourages States from using cluster munitions or anti-personnel mines and continues to encourage non-States Party to accede to each Convention. The UK undertakes programmatic work to support other States Parties' implementation of each Convention and remains committed to ending the suffering and casualties caused by cluster munitions and anti-personnel mines. The UK has entered the third iteration of its global demining programme, which invested £146 million in 14 countries between 2018 and 2022.