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Israel: Arms Trade

Question for Foreign and Commonwealth Office

UIN 145279, tabled on 17 May 2018

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what role his Department has in ensuring that UK arms exports to Israel are not being used in contravention of UK National Arms Export Licensing Criteria.

Answered on

24 May 2018

​We assess all applications very carefully against the Consolidated EU and National Arms Export Licensing Criteria. Human rights and international humanitarian law considerations are important parts of that assessment. We keep the situation under constant review.

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Foreign and Commonwealth Office