Business, Innovation and Skills written question – answered at on 10 January 2012.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills whether his Department provides (a) training and (b) detailed briefings on the arms trade treaty to staff working in overseas posts; and what steps he is taking to ensure that the treaty is raised in all relevant bilateral meetings.
Officials from this Department participate in a range of outreach activities organised by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office as part of a cross-Whitehall team. The responsibility for briefing staff in overseas posts would be for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office to arrange.
Officials from the Export Control Organisation have taken the opportunity to discuss the arms trade treaty with their international counterparts during a range of meetings on broader issues with which they are involved.
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