Question to the Department for International Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, whether his Department plans to review arms sales to the Government of Cameroon.

The Government takes its export control responsibilities extremely seriously.

The UK operates one of the most robust export control regimes in the world. The Government will not grant export licences where to do so would be inconsistent with the Consolidated EU and National Arms Exports Licensing Criteria, which include the respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms in the country of final destination. The Government will not grant a licence where there is a clear risk that the items to exported might be used for internal repression.

Extant licences can be revoked at any time if the situation changes in Cameroon and those licences are no longer assessed as being consistent with the licensing criteria.

The policy remains as announced to parliament in a Written Ministerial Statement on 25 March 2014: https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201314/cmhansrd/cm140325/wmstext/140325m0001.htm#140325660000