Arms Trade: Export Controls
(asked on 13th April 2017) - View Source
Question to the Department for International Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, which Government department has the lead responsibility for assessing each of the Consolidated EU and National Arms Export Licensing Criteria.
Criterion | Lead Department |
Criterion 1 | FCO |
Criterion 2 | FCO |
Criterion 3 | FCO |
Criterion 4 | FCO |
Criterion 5 | MOD |
Criterion 6 | FCO |
Criterion 7 | MOD and FCO |
Criterion 8 | DfID |
Further details are set out in Annex A of the United Kingdom Strategic Export Controls Annual Report 2015. Although this publication predates the creation of the Department for International Trade, the lead departments as set out above are unchanged. (https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/uk-annual-report-on-strategic-export-controls-2015).