Tradeshow Access Programme: Human Rights
(asked on 22nd January 2016) - View Source
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what formal assessments UKTI has made of potential risks to human rights of the Tradeshow Access Programme; and what guidelines or criteria were used for those assessments.
This question was answered on 2nd February 2016
There has been no formal assessment of potential risks to human rights of the Tradeshow Access Programme. However, companies using the programme are bound by UK law and exports are made in accordance with the UK’s strict export control legislation and in respect of all relevant international treaties and obligations.