Arms Trade

(asked on 2nd September 2016) - View Source

Question to the Department for International Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, to which countries of concern on human rights the Government has authorised arms sales in the last year.


Answered by
Mark Garnier Portrait
Mark Garnier
Shadow Parliamentary Under Secretary (Energy Security and Net Zero)
This question was answered on 8th September 2016

From January 2015 – March 2016 licences have been granted for military goods to the following countries of human rights concern:

Afghanistan; Bahrain; Bangladesh; Burundi; Central African Republic; China; Colombia; Democratic Republic of Congo; Egypt; Iraq; Israel and The Occupied Palestinian Territories; Maldives; Pakistan; Russia; Saudi Arabia; Somalia; South Sudan; Sri Lanka; Sudan; Syria; Turkmenistan; Venezuela; Yemen and Zimbabwe.

Further details on all licences granted for export are publically available as Official Statistics at www.gov.uk.

All export licences are issued in strict accordance with the Consolidated EU and National Arms Export Licensing Criteria and any sanctions or embargoes that may be in place at the time an application is submitted for consideration.

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