Question to the Department for International Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what recent assessment her Department has made of the effectiveness of the Consolidated EU and National Arms Export Licensing Criteria and its ability to protect countries from violence and human rights abuses.

HM Government announced the Strategic Export Licensing Criteria in a Written Statement on 8^th December 2021 (HCWS449) and is satisfied that they provide a thorough risk assessment framework for assessing all export licence applications.