Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, with reference to the Answer of 15 February 2016 to Question 24771, what further assessment he has made of the conclusions of the Final Report of the UN Panel of Experts on Yemen.

We have considered the information presented in the UN report. We note that Non-Governmental Organisations and other bodies, including the UN, do not have access to the same type of information on which to base their conclusions as is available to the Government. In particular we are able to call upon UK and other government sources, including a number of liaison officers in Saudi Headquarters. The UK has supported, and continues to support, the work of the Panels of Experts commissioned by the UN, but we do not always agree with their conclusions.