Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 4 June 2018 to Question 146721 on UK arms sales to Israel, whether the UK Government (a) has made representations to and (b) sought reassurances from the Government of Israel on the use of arms exported from the UK against unarmed protesters in Gaza.

Whilst we have not raised this issue with the Israeli authorities, we continue to assess export licence applications on a case-by-case basis against the Consolidated Criteria. The Government takes its defence export responsibilities extremely seriously and we have been keeping the situation in Israel under review. We have no information to suggest that UK supplied equipment has been used against protesters in Gaza.