Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what is their policy regarding the ongoing sale of weapons to nations which have been shown to have used UK-manufactured weapons for the purpose of illegal attacks or other human rights abuses.

​The Government takes its arms export responsibilities very seriously and operates one of the most robust arms export control regimes in the world. We examine every application rigorously on a case-by-case basis against the Consolidated EU and National Arms Export Licensing Criteria. Risks around human rights abuses are a key part of our assessment. We do not export equipment where we assess there is a clear risk that it might be used for internal repression or in the commission of a serious violation of international humanitarian law or would provoke or prolong conflict within a country, or would be used aggressively against another country.