Arms Export Controls: Initial review

• Watch Parliament TV: Arms export controls: Initial review
• Inquiry: Arms export controls: Initial review
• Committees on Arms Export Controls

Witnesses

Tuesday 15 December - remote participation by witnesses and Committee members

At 10.00am

• Oliver Feeley-Sprague, Programme Director for work on Arms Control, Amnesty International UK
• Roy Isbister, Arms Unit, Saferworld
• Dr Sam Perlo-Freeman, Research Coordinator, Campaign Against the Arms Trade (CAAT)

Purpose of the session

Topics expected to be covered at the session include:

• The Strategic Export Controls Annual Report 2019
• Consequences for the arms export control system of the DfID/FCO merger
• The work undertaken by the Department for International Trade and the Export Control Joint Unit as a result of the Appeal Court judgment in June 2019; and
• Consequences of the UK’s withdrawal from the EU for arms export controls, including potential deviation from the existing EU-based 'Consolidated Criteria' rules and information-sharing arrangements

Further information

• About Parliament: Select committees
• Visiting Parliament: Watch committees

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