Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether the Government plans to ratify Protocol V of the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons.
The British Government continues to keep its ratification of Protocol Five of the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW) under review. The UK has ratified the remaining four protocols of the CCW, including Amended Protocol II and the Amendment to Article One, and remains fully supportive of the Convention's work.