Question follow-through · 1402
Watchkeeper WK450: Components
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if his Department will conduct an investigation into whether Watchkeeper drone components are being exported from the UK to Israel to support drone exports to Romania.
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 14 May 2026
- Target answer date
- 20 May 2026
- Answer
- 27 May 2026 · 13 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
14 May 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if his Department will conduct an investigation into whether Watchkeeper drone components are being exported from the UK to Israel to support drone exports to Romania.
20 May 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
27 May 2026
Answer published
Watchkeeper unmanned aerial system (UAS) components are licensed from the UK to Israel solely for the purpose of supporting onward export to a Romanian UAS programme.The Department has published extensive information on our export licences to Israel. This...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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