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Colombia: Police Brutality

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Question for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

UIN 4664, tabled on 20 May 2021

Question

Lloyd Russell-Moyle
Labour
Brighton, Kemptown
Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether he has plans to review arms export licences issued for Colombia in response to the reported human rights abuses committed by Colombian police during protests in April and May 2021.

Answer

Wendy Morton
Conservative
Aldridge-Brownhills
Commons

Answered on

25 May 2021

HM Government takes its export control responsibilities very seriously and operates one of the most robust arms export control regimes in the world. We consider all our export applications thoroughly against a strict risk assessment framework and keep all licences under careful and continual review as standard. HM Government will not grant an export licence if to do so would be inconsistent with the Consolidated EU and National Arms Export Licensing Criteria.

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