On7 February this year, the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills announced that there would be a new suspension mechanism, which would allow the Government quickly to suspend the processing of pending licence applications for export to countries experiencing a sharp deterioration in security or stability, and that the suspension would not be invoked automatically or lightly, but would be triggered, for example, when a Conflict Or Crisis conditions suddenly changed the risk or made conducting a proper risk assessment difficult.

Today, 37 million children living through Conflicts Or Crisis are out of school.