Arms Export Controls Committee

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The Arms Export Controls Committee (formerly the Quadripartite Committee) is a concurrent meeting of four House of Commons select committees:

• Defence Committee
• Foreign Affairs Committee
• International Development Committee
• Trade and Industry 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).

[edit] Membership

Members of all four Committees can attend but the committees have designated the following members to attend the Quadripartite Committee:

• From the Trade and Industry Committee:
  • Roger Berry (Chairman), Labour
  • Lindsay Hoyle, Labour
  • Peter Luff, Conservative
  • Judy Mallaber, Labour
• From the Defence Committee:
  • David Borrow, Labour
  • David Crausby, Labour
  • Linda Gilroy, Labour
  • Robert Key, Conservative
• From the Foreign Affairs Committee:
  • Mike Gapes, Labour
  • Fabian Hamilton, Labour
  • Paul Keetch, Liberal Democrats
  • Sir John Stanley, Conservative
• From the International Development Committee:
  • Malcolm Bruce, Liberal Democrats
  • John Bercow, Conservative
  • Richard Burden, Labour
  • James Duddridge, Conservative

[edit] See also

• List of Committees of the United Kingdom Parliament

[edit] External links

• Quadripartite Committee