Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent assessment he has made of the merits of ratifying the Kampala amendments on the crime of aggression to the Statute of Rome.

The Kampala amendments are activated on 17 July 2018. Thereafter, the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court over the crime of aggression only applies, in the absence of a UN Security Council referral, to acts of aggression committed by States Parties that have ratified or accepted the amendments to the Rome Statute on the crime of aggression. The UK has no plans to ratify these amendments, as we believe that the UN Security Council should be the body responsible for determining when an act of aggression has occurred.