UK ARMS EXPORTS

Motion Text

That this House welcomes the publication of the Saferworld report The Good, the Bad and the Ugly; notes that the UK is the world's second largest exporter of arms; acknowledges that the Government has tightened export controls on arms sales since 1997; nevertheless believes that the current arrangement is failing properly to ensure that arms exported from the UK do not find their way to conflict zones; notes that in the three years up to 2006 arms exports were approved to 19 of 20 states identified by the Government as countries of concern; believes that not enough is being done to trace arms exports once they leave the UK; and calls on the Government further to tighten export controls and introduce new and more stringent checks on the end-use of arms exports from the UK.