Source · Select Committees · Committees on Arms Export Controls
Recommendation 30
30
Acknowledged
Paragraph: 91
We welcome the inclusion of an export controls section in the FCDO’s annual Human Rights...
Recommendation
We welcome the inclusion of an export controls section in the FCDO’s annual Human Rights and Democracy Report. However, consideration of human rights should also be better mainstreamed into future Strategic Export Controls Annual Reports. We recommend that future Strategic Export Controls Annual Reports demonstrate, by including examples, how the Government takes the list of human rights priority countries into account in licensing decisions and exercising export controls.
Government Response Summary
The government will consider how future Strategic Export Controls Annual Reports can best demonstrate how it takes the list of human rights priority countries into account in licensing decisions and exercising export controls, without compromising national security or commercial confidentiality.
Paragraph Reference:
91
Government Response
Acknowledged
HM Government
Acknowledged
The Government welcomes the Committees’ support for the inclusion of an export controls section in the FCDO’s annual Human Rights and Democracy Report. We also note the recommendation that consideration of human rights should be better mainstreamed into future Strategic Export Controls Annual Reports. The Government is committed to publishing comprehensive, accessible, and transparent information on export controls. We will consider how future Strategic Export Controls Annual Reports can best demonstrate how the Government takes the list of human rights priority countries into account in licensing decisions and exercising export controls, without compromising national security or commercial confidentiality.