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. In March 2016 an inquiry into the use of UK-manufactured weapons in Yemen was launched.
The committee was abolished, and its functions subsumed into the Business and Trade Committee, in January 2024.
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. Member Party ConstituencyMark Garnier MP (Chair)ConservativeWyre Forest Neil Coyle MPLabourBermondsey and Old SouthwarkMartin Docherty-Hughes MPSNPWest DunbartonshireTobias Ellwood MPConservativeBournemouth EastChris Law MPSNPDundee WestEmma Lewell-Buck MPLabour Co-opSouth ShieldsMark Menzies MPConservativeFyldeSir Mark Hendrick MPLabour and Co-opPrestonTom Tugendhat MPConservativeTonbridge and MallingClaudia Webbe MPLabourLeicester East
Changes 2019–2024 Date Outgoing Member& Party Constituency → New Member& Party Constituency Source5 October 2020Vacant→ Sarah Champion MP (Labour) Rotherham Theo Clarke MP (Conservative) Stafford Navendu Mishra MP (Labour) Stockport Kate Osamor MP (Labour) Edmonton 3 February 2021 Sir Mark Hendrick MP (Labour and Co-op) Preston → Lloyd Russell-Moyle MP (Labour) Brighton Kemptown 16 November 2021 Vacant → Stuart Anderson MP (Conservative) Wolverhampton South West 5 January 2022 Martin Docherty-Hughes MP (SNP) West Dunbartonshire → Vacant Claudia Webbe MP (Independent) Leicester East 25 January 2022 Vacant → Liam Byrne MP (Labour) Birmingham Hodge Hill 26 January 2022 Vacant → Dave Doogan MP (SNP) Angus 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
See also Parliamentary committees of the United Kingdom
References
External links Committees on Arms Export Controls Records for this Committee are held at the Parliamentary Archives Committee on Twitter