Arms Trade: Israel
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether his Department has made an assessment of Israel’s degree of compliance with UK end-use arms export restrictions, and whether any deviations from stated restrictions have been recorded.
Answered by Chris Bryant
The UK’s approach to export licensing under the Strategic Export Licensing Criteria involves a rigorous risk assessment before a licence is issued. These checks consider the nature of the items, the end-users and proposed end uses, information on which is typically provided through signed End-User and Stockist Undertakings.
It is an offence for an export licence applicant to knowingly make a statement which is false. All licences are kept under careful and continual review as standard and we can suspend, refuse, or revoke licences as circumstances require.
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