Business and Trade Sub-Committee on Economic Security, Arms and Export Controls

15 July 2026

Contents updated on 15 Jul 2026

The Committee opens its session on arms export controls, examines transparency of export licensing and reporting (including MOD Crown exemptions and gifting), and then turns to the legal status of Israeli settlements, settler violence and the adequacy of current UK sanctions powers and IHL assessment capacity within the FCDO.

Committee Wed, 15 Jul 2026 Actual start 09:15 House of Commons

13:48 - 14:06

Speaker 2

Welcome to this morning's meeting of the Business and Trade Sub-Committee on Economic Security, Arms and Export Controls. Thank you very much indeed to Lord Coaker, Chris Bryant, Sir Chris Bryant, Stephen Doughty, together with your officials for joining us today for one of our regular hearings on arms control. And Charlie Maynard is going to open the questioning.

14:06 - 14:08

Speaker 1

Oh, thank you, Chair.

14:07 - 14:38

Speaker 4

And good morning, everyone. Thank you for being here. Minister, just following on from our 9th of June conversation, the Committee was very heartened by your commitment to transparency, and particularly around delivery information. And really we wanted to go there and just ask, we understand there's some IT issues and all of that, but really where you are with regard to the commitment to implementing a policy of releasing data on actual usage and deliveries under export licenses, please?

14:38 - 14:56

Speaker 3

Yes, so, as you know, it's, I fully understand the concern that the Committee have had. It is preposterous, really, that we have, and there are understandable reasons why it's difficult to get to the right statistics and so on, that I won't bore the Committee members with all of that.

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