Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 5 July 2016 to Question 41376, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of evidence provided by Amnesty International on the alleged use of UK-produced BL-755 cluster munitions by the Saudi-led Coalition in Yemen.

The Government takes these allegations very seriously. We have analysed the case carefully and raised the issue with the Saudi-led Coalition.

The key test for our continued arms exports to Saudi Arabia in relation to International Humanitarian Law (IHL) is whether there is a clear risk that those weapons might be used in a serious violation of IHL. This is kept under careful and continual review.