Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 12 January 2017 to Question 58534, if the Government will report to the House prior to any multilateral discussions with other signatories of the Joint Declaration for the Export and Subsequent Use of Armed or Strike-Enabled Unmanned Aerial Vehicles taking place to set out any proposals it plans to put forward.

As yet no date has been set for formal consultations with the signatories of the Joint Declaration. The topic of strike-enabled UAVs comes up in informal contact with likeminded countries, but we do not yet have UK proposals to offer.