Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, if he will it his policy not to provide financial assistance under the Tradeshow Access Programme in cases in which (a) doing so would contribute to the sale of security equipment to countries with poor human rights records and (b) that equipment could contribute to human rights abuses.

Financial assistance under the Tradeshow Access Programme is only offered to companies whose products comply with the United Kingdom’s strict export control legislation and in respect of all relevant international treaties and obligations.