Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 17 November 2014 to Question 213991, for what reasons it was decided that following the use of tear gas canisters during protests in Hong Kong on 28 September 2014 only one arms transfer licence should be subject to review.

Following the use of tear gas by the Hong Kong Police on 28 September, the Government looked at all extant licences for tear gas exports to the Hong Kong Police since 1999. It was concluded that only one export licence for export of tear gas to the Hong Kong Police remained extant and relevant, granted in August 2010. This licence remains open.