Committees on Arms Export Controls

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.^[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.

Member		Party	Constituency
	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

Date	Outgoing Member & Party		Constituency	→	New Member & Party		Constituency	Source
5 October 2020	Vacant			→		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 2021		Sir Mark Hendrick MP (Labour and Co-op)	Preston	→		Lloyd Russell-Moyle MP (Labour)	Brighton Kemptown	[19]
16 November 2021	Vacant			→		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 2022	Vacant			→		Liam Byrne MP (Labour)	Birmingham Hodge Hill	[21]
26 January 2022	Vacant			→		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

See also

• List of Committees of the United Kingdom Parliament