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

I undertook at the Committees’ recent Oral Evidence Session, to provide a copy of our Overseas Security and Justice Assistance (OSJA) Guidance. I enclose a copy.

The Guidance can also be found online at:
http://ww.fco.gov.uk/resources/en/pdf/global-issues/human-rights/osja-guidance-151211.pdf

I was grateful for your suggestion that we promote more prominently in the Guidance the need to refer to the Consolidated Criteria when looking at the provision of equipment as part of security and justice assistance. I have asked my officials to reflect this when the Guidance is next reviewed in April.

20 February 2012