Question to the Department for Business and Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether his Department has made an assessment of Israel’s degree of compliance with UK end-use arms export restrictions, and whether any deviations from stated restrictions have been recorded.

The UK’s approach to export licensing under the Strategic Export Licensing Criteria involves a rigorous risk assessment before a licence is issued. These checks consider the nature of the items, the end-users and proposed end uses, information on which is typically provided through signed End-User and Stockist Undertakings.

It is an offence for an export licence applicant to knowingly make a statement which is false. All licences are kept under careful and continual review as standard and we can suspend, refuse, or revoke licences as circumstances require.