Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, for what reason the Government is yet to join the other permanent members of the UN Security Council in ratifying Protocol V of the Convention of Certain Conventional Weapons.

The UK is fully committed to the humanitarian aims of the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons, and has ratified four of the Convention's five protocols. The UK already abides by the spirit of Protocol V and is assessing its position with regard to ratification.