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89423

	registered interest
	date	29/08/2014
	answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
	answering dept id	26
	answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	hansard heading	Spaceflight
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what recent steps he has taken to encourage the growth of a space tourism industry in the the UK.
	tabling member constituency	Windsor
	tabling member printed	Adam Afriyie
	uin	207535
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/09/2014 answer text <p>The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Transport (Robert Goodwill) announced at the Farnborough International Air show in July 2014 the Government's commitment to establish a spaceport in the UK by 2018. The Government is working to ensure that sub-orbital space participant and science flights are operated from this space port.</p> answering member constituency Tunbridge Wells answering member printed Greg Clark question first answered 08/09/2014 14:00:42 answering member 1578 label Biography information for Greg Clark
	tabling member	1586 label Biography information for Adam Afriyie

89436

	registered interest
	date	29/08/2014
	answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
	answering dept id	26
	answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	hansard heading	Exports: Advisory Services
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that the Overseas Business Risk service is better shared with and promoted to businesses looking to export.
	tabling member constituency	High Peak
	tabling member printed	Andrew Bingham
	uin	207306
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/09/2014 answer text <p>The Overseas Business Risk (OBR) service is promoted as part of UK Trade and Investment’s (UKTI) overall offer to UK businesses looking to develop their exports. This is done through UKTI’s network which includes International Trade Advisers, Sectoral and Overseas teams. Promotion material, such as UKTI’s First Class Export Pack, also aims to ensure UK business is aware of the service alongside outreach events and the use of social media. The OBR country pages on the GOV.UK domain are refreshed on a regular basis to provide up-to-date intelligence to UK business. A Joint Advisory Group, with very senior business representation, contributes to the development and promotion of this service.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 08/09/2014 16:41:12 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
	tabling member	3994 label Biography information for Andrew Bingham

89432

	registered interest
	date	29/08/2014
	answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
	answering dept id	26
	answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	hansard heading	Arms Trade: Saudi Arabia
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what end-of-use monitoring is in place to ensure that UK weapons supplied to Saudi Arabia are used for the purposes specified.
	tabling member constituency	North Ayrshire and Arran
	tabling member printed	Katy Clark
	uin	207361
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/09/2014 answer text <p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The UK’s priority in arms export licensing is to ensure that all applications are rigorously assessed on a case-by-case basis against the Consolidated EU and National Arms Export Licensing Criteria prior to granting a licence. This includes assessing the risk of diversion to undesirable end use or undesirable end users.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>After the export has been granted, the Export Control Organisation also has the power to suspend and revoke licences if necessary, if the situation in the end-use destination changes.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>In terms of end use monitoring, Foreign Office posts overseas have a standing requirement to monitor developments in human rights and conflicts in their respective countries or regions and to report back if there are any developments that might affect licensing policy. In addition the Government uses open source material such as NGO reports to make it assessments.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 10/09/2014 14:14:46 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
	tabling member	1590 label Biography information for Baroness Clark of Kilwinning

89430

	registered interest
	date	29/08/2014
	answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
	answering dept id	26
	answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	hansard heading	Unmanned Air Vehicles: Israel
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, whether the engines used in the Israeli Defence Forces unmanned aerial vehicles have been developed or enhanced with the assistance of UK technology or components.
	tabling member constituency	North Ayrshire and Arran
	tabling member printed	Katy Clark
	uin	207381
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/09/2014 answer text <p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>We have identified one licence for components for unmanned air vehicles for the Israeli Defence Forces, dating back to 1999.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 10/09/2014 14:23:26 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
	tabling member	1590 label Biography information for Baroness Clark of Kilwinning

89442

	registered interest
	date	29/08/2014
	answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
	answering dept id	26
	answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	hansard heading	Exports: Israel
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many (a) standard individual export licenses and (b) open individual export licences permitting exports to Israel were suspended between 8 July and 31 August 2014.
	tabling member constituency	North Ayrshire and Arran
	tabling member printed	Katy Clark
	uin	207395
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/09/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>No such export licences were suspended in this period of time.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 10/09/2014 15:01:55 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
	tabling member	1590 label Biography information for Baroness Clark of Kilwinning

89439

	registered interest
	date	29/08/2014
	answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
	answering dept id	26
	answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	hansard heading	Exports: Israel
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many decisions on standard individual export licence applications for export to Israel were made between 8 July and 31 July 2014; and what proportion of such decisions were approved.
	tabling member constituency	North Ayrshire and Arran
	tabling member printed	Katy Clark
	uin	207349
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2014 answer text <p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>10 decisions for Standard Individual Export Licences were made for direct export to Israel.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>A further 4 decisions for Standard Individual Export Licences were made for export, where Israel is listed as either an ultimate end user or potential ultimate end user on the application.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>In total 14 decisions were made and all were for licences to be granted.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 11/09/2014 15:38:53 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
	tabling member	1590 label Biography information for Baroness Clark of Kilwinning

89440

	registered interest
	date	29/08/2014
	answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
	answering dept id	26
	answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	hansard heading	Exports: Israel
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many applications for standard individual export licences for export to Israel were made between 8 July 2014 and 31 July 2014; and how many such applications were successful.
	tabling member constituency	North Ayrshire and Arran
	tabling member printed	Katy Clark
	uin	207350
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/10/2014 answer text <p>19 applications have been submitted for Standard Individual Export Licences for direct export to Israel.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>A further 16 applications have been submitted for Standard Individual Export Licences for export, where Israel is listed an ultimate end user on the application.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Of the 35 applications, 2 licences have been granted.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Our assessment is that the licences granted are not for items that could be used by Israeli forces in operations in Gaza in response to attacks in Hamas.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 10/10/2014 12:32:09 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
	tabling member	1590 label Biography information for Baroness Clark of Kilwinning

89443

	registered interest
	date	29/08/2014
	answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
	answering dept id	26
	answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	hansard heading	Exports: Israel
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many decisions on standard individual export licence applications for export to Israel were made between 1 and 31 August 2014; and what proportion of the decisions on such applications were successful.
	tabling member constituency	North Ayrshire and Arran
	tabling member printed	Katy Clark
	uin	207393
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/10/2014 answer text <p>8 decisions for Standard Individual Export Licences were made for direct export to Israel, all of which were decisions to grant a licence.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Our assessment is that the licences granted are not for items that could be used by Israeli forces in operations in Gaza in response to attacks in Hamas.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 10/10/2014 12:39:18 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
	tabling member	1590 label Biography information for Baroness Clark of Kilwinning

89446

	registered interest
	date	29/08/2014
	answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
	answering dept id	26
	answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	hansard heading	Exports: Israel
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many applications for standard individual export licences for export to Israel were made between 1 and 31 August 2014; and how many such applications were successful.
	tabling member constituency	North Ayrshire and Arran
	tabling member printed	Katy Clark
	uin	207394
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/10/2014 answer text <p>30 applications have been submitted for Standard Individual Export Licences for direct export to Israel.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>A further 7 applications have been submitted for Standard Individual Export Licences for export, where Israel is listed as a potential or ultimate end user on the application.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Of the 37 applications, 2 licences have been granted.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Our assessment is that the licences granted are not for items that could be used by Israeli forces in operations in Gaza in response to attacks in Hamas.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 10/10/2014 12:41:30 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
	tabling member	1590 label Biography information for Baroness Clark of Kilwinning

89434

	registered interest
	date	29/08/2014
	answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
	answering dept id	26
	answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	hansard heading	Unmanned Air Vehicles: Israel
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, whether the Government has issued export licences for unmanned aerial vehicle engines for use by the Israeli Defence Force since 2010.
	tabling member constituency	North Ayrshire and Arran
	tabling member printed	Katy Clark
	uin	207373
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/10/2014 answer text <p>No licences have been granted for unmanned aerial vehicle engines for use by the Israeli Defence Force since 2010.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 10/10/2014 12:43:46 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
	tabling member	1590 label Biography information for Baroness Clark of Kilwinning