Written Question·Department for Business and Trade·UIN 13415

Shipping: Weapons

Tabled: 11 November 2024
Answered: 15 November 2024
Named Day

Question

Liam Byrne

LabourBirmingham Hodge Hill and Solihull North

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will make it his policy that vessel based armouries export licence applications should include an undertaking to return the licensed (a) goods and (b) items to the UK if an approved licence is (i

Answer

Mr Douglas Alexander
Licences issued to Private Maritime Security Companies for the movement of arms (including for storage on vessel based armouries) already include provision in the terms and conditions for the controlled goods to either be returned to the UK via a Standard...

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