Committees on Arms ExportsLetter from the Chair of the Committees to the Rt Hon William Hague MP, First Secretary of State and Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, Foreign and Commonwealth Office

The Committees on Arms Export Controls will be grateful for a copy of the report made to Ministers at the conclusion of the Government’s review of arms exports.

If there is material in the report that is commercially confidential, it would be acceptable for this to be separated out and provided to the Committees in a RESTRICTED annex in the usual way.

In your Written Ministerial Statement of 13 October you said that “guidance will be issued for all HMG officials on assessing the human rights implications of our overseas security and justice assistance. We will make this guidance public later this year.”

The Committees wish to have a copy of this guidance as soon as it is made public.

21 November 2011