Written Question·Department for Business and Trade·UIN 62205

Arms Trade

Tabled: 24 June 2025

Answered: 30 June 2025

Named Day

Question

Brendan O'Hara

Scottish National Party — Argyll, Bute and South Lochaber

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps he plans to take to regulate arms exports in line with international (a) legal and (b) human rights obligations; and what assessment he has made of the potential merits of new international

Answer

Mr Douglas Alexander

All export licences are assessed on a case-by-case basis against the UK’s Strategic Export Licensing Criteria. Criterion 1 requires us to comply with the UK’s international commitments and obligations (including our treaty obligations), and Criterion 2 re...

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