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.

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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. [1] [2] In March 2016 an inquiry into the use of UK-manufactured weapons in Yemen was launched. [3]

The committee was abolished, and its functions subsumed into the Business and Trade Committee, in January 2024. [4]

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.

MemberPartyConstituency
Mark Garnier MP (Chair) [5] Conservative Wyre Forest
Neil Coyle MP [6] Labour [a] Bermondsey and Old Southwark
Martin Docherty-Hughes MP [7] SNP West Dunbartonshire
Tobias Ellwood MP [8] Conservative [b] Bournemouth East
Chris Law MP [9] SNP Dundee West
Emma Lewell-Buck MP [10] Labour Co-op South Shields
Mark Menzies MP [11] Conservative Fylde
Sir Mark Hendrick MP [12] Labour and Co-op Preston
Tom Tugendhat MP [13] Conservative Tonbridge and Malling
Claudia Webbe MP [14] Labour [c] Leicester East
  1. ↑ Whip suspended from 11 February 2022 to 25 May 2023.
  2. ↑ Whip suspended from 19 July 2022 to 15 October 2022.
  3. ↑ Whip suspended from 28 September 2020.

Changes 2019–2024

DateOutgoing Member
& Party		Constituency→New Member
& Party		ConstituencySource
5 October 2020Vacant→ Sarah Champion MP (Labour) Rotherham [15]
Theo Clarke MP (Conservative) Stafford [16]
Navendu Mishra MP (Labour) Stockport [17]
Kate Osamor MP (Labour) Edmonton [18]
3 February 2021Sir Mark Hendrick MP (Labour and Co-op) Preston → Lloyd Russell-Moyle MP (Labour) Brighton Kemptown [19]
16 November 2021Vacant→ Stuart Anderson MP (Conservative) Wolverhampton South West [20]
5 January 2022 Martin Docherty-Hughes MP (SNP) West Dunbartonshire →Vacant
Claudia Webbe MP (Independent) Leicester East
25 January 2022Vacant→ Liam Byrne MP (Labour) Birmingham Hodge Hill [21]
26 January 2022Vacant→ Dave Doogan MP (SNP) Angus [22]
7 September 2022 Tom Tugendhat MP (Conservative) Tonbridge and Malling →Vacant
27 November 2022 Liam Byrne MP (Labour) Birmingham Hodge Hill →Vacant
Theo Clarke MP (Conservative) Stafford

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  2. ↑ "Chris White MP elected as Chair". House of Commons. UK Parliament. 10 February 2016. Retrieved 5 November 2016.
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  6. ↑ "Parliamentary career for Neil Coyle - MPs and Lords - UK Parliament". UK Parliament. Retrieved 10 January 2025.
  7. ↑ "Parliamentary career for Martin Docherty-Hughes - MPs and Lords - UK Parliament". UK Parliament. Retrieved 10 January 2025.
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  10. ↑ "Parliamentary career for Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck - MPs and Lords - UK Parliament". UK Parliament. Retrieved 10 January 2025.
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  13. ↑ "Parliamentary career for Tom Tugendhat - MPs and Lords - UK Parliament". UK Parliament. Retrieved 10 January 2025.
  14. ↑ "Parliamentary career for Claudia Webbe - MPs and Lords - UK Parliament". UK Parliament. Retrieved 10 January 2025.
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  16. ↑ "Parliamentary career for Theo Clarke - MPs and Lords - UK Parliament". UK Parliament. Retrieved 10 January 2025.
  17. ↑ "Parliamentary career for Navendu Mishra - MPs and Lords - UK Parliament". UK Parliament. Retrieved 10 January 2025.
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