Question follow-through · 88678
Autonomous Weapons: Arms Trade
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether her Department supports negotiations for a treaty on lethal autonomous weapons systems in 2027.
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- Answering body
- Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
- Tabled
- 10 Nov 2025
- Target answer date
- 13 Nov 2025
- Answer
- 13 Nov 2025 · 3 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
10 Nov 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether her Department supports negotiations for a treaty on lethal autonomous weapons systems in 2027.
13 Nov 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
13 Nov 2025
Answer published
The Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW) and its Group of Government Experts (GGE) is the appropriate forum to consider the issue of emerging technologies in the area of Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems (LAWS). It is inclusive, expert and con...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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