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Genocide: Export Licences

Commons · Question 30528 · Tabled 10 Feb 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office · Official record

Answered 25 Feb 2025

Question

Asked by Ayoub Khan

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, with reference to his correspondence of 8 January 2024 to the Chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee, if he will list the steps his Department takes to monitor the risk of ge

Answer

Answered by Hamish Falconer, 25 Feb 2025

Criterion 1 of the Strategic Export Licensing Criteria states that the Government will not grant a licence if to do so would be inconsistent with the UK's international obligations and commitments. This includes the duty to prevent genocide under Article ...