Committees on Arms Export Controls
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The Committees on Arms Export Controls (formerly the Quadripartite Committee) was the name for the concurrent meeting of four House of Commons select committees, comprising the International Trade Select Committee, the Defence Select Committee, the Foreign Affairs Select Committee, and the International Development Select Committee.
The remit of the committee is to examine the Government's expenditure, administration and policy on strategic exports (licensing of arms exports and other controlled goods).
In 2015 to 2016 the committee did not meet for over 9 months after the chairman Sir John Stanley retired as an MP, because of a long delay in appointing new members. Chris White was elected chair in February 2016.{{cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/saudi-arabia-use-of-british-weapons-in-yemen-to-be-investigated-by-parliamentary-commission-a6922906.html |title=Saudi Arabia's use of British weapons in Yemen to be investigated by Parliamentary commission |author=Cahal Milmo |newspaper=The Independent |date=10 March 2016 |accessdate=5 November 2016}}{{cite web |url=http://www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z/other-committees/committee-on-arms-export-controls/news-parliament-2015/chair-elected-15-16/ |title=Chris White MP elected as Chair |publisher=UK Parliament |work=House of Commons |date=10 February 2016 |accessdate=5 November 2016}} In March 2016 an inquiry into the use of UK-manufactured weapons in Yemen was launched.{{cite web |url=http://www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z/other-committees/committee-on-arms-export-controls/news-parliament-2015/uk-arms-yemen-launch-15-16/ |title=Use of UK-manufactured arms in Yemen inquiry launched |publisher=UK Parliament |work=House of Commons |date=10 March 2016 |accessdate=5 November 2016}}
The committee was abolished, and its functions subsumed into the Business and Trade Committee, in January 2024.{{cite web |last1=Brooke-Holland |first1=Louisa |title=An introduction to UK arms exports |url=https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cbp-8312/ |website=House of Commons Library |access-date=10 January 2025 |date=1 September 2025}}
2019-2024 Parliament
Members of the committee were drawn from the Defence Select Committee, Foreign Affairs Select Committee, Business, Innovation and Skills Committee (later the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee, then the Business and Trade Select Committee), and the International Development Committee.
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= Changes 2019–2024 =
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! valign="top" | Date ! colspan="2" valign="top" | Outgoing Member ! valign="top" | Constituency ! → ! colspan="2" valign="top" | New Member ! valign="top" | Constituency ! valign="top" | Source |
| rowspan=4|5 October 2020
| colspan=3 rowspan=4|Vacant | rowspan=4 |→ | style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" | | Sarah Champion MP (Labour) |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |
| Theo Clarke MP (Conservative) | Stafford |
| rowspan=2 style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" |
| Navendu Mishra MP (Labour) |
| Kate Osamor MP (Labour)
| Edmonton |
| 3 February 2021
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" | | Sir Mark Hendrick MP (Labour and Co-op) | Preston | → | style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" | | Lloyd Russell-Moyle MP (Labour) |
| 16 November 2021
| colspan=3| Vacant | → | style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" | | Stuart Anderson MP (Conservative) |
| rowspan=2|5 January 2022
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Scottish National Party}}" | | Martin Docherty-Hughes MP (SNP) | rowspan=2| → | colspan=3 rowspan=2| Vacant | rowspan=2| |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Independent politician}}" |
| Claudia Webbe MP (Independent) |
| 25 January 2022
| colspan=3| Vacant | → | style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" | | Liam Byrne MP (Labour) |
| 26 January 2022
| colspan=3| Vacant | → | style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Scottish National Party}}" | | Dave Doogan MP (SNP) | Angus |
| 7 September 2022
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" | | Tom Tugendhat MP (Conservative) | → | colspan=3| Vacant |
| rowspan=2 | 27 November 2022
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Labour Party (UK)}}" | | Liam Byrne MP (Labour) | rowspan=2| → | rowspan=2 colspan=3| Vacant |rowspan=2 | |
| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Conservative Party (UK)}}" |
| Theo Clarke MP (Conservative) | Stafford |
See also
References
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External links
- [http://www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z/other-committees/committee-on-arms-export-controls/ Committees on Arms Export Controls]
- [https://archives.parliament.uk/collections/getrecord/GB61_HC_CL_CO_EO Records for this Committee are held at the Parliamentary Archives]
- [https://twitter.com/commonscaec?lang=en Committee] on Twitter
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