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1150246

registered interest
date	17/10/2019
answering body	Department for International Trade
answering dept id	202
answering dept short name	International Trade
answering dept sort name	International Trade
hansard heading	Overseas Trade: Rural Areas
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What recent assessment she has made of the extent of international trading opportunities for (a) Yorkshire and (b) other counties in rural regions.
tabling member constituency	Thirsk and Malton
tabling member printed	Kevin Hollinrake
uin	900012
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2019 answer text <p>In 2018 the value of exports from Yorkshire &amp; the Humber was 25% higher than 2010. Rural based companies are also exporting more than before and as we leave the EU we will strike new trade deals and open new markets for UK products and services.</p> answering member constituency Beverley and Holderness answering member printed Graham Stuart question first answered 17/10/2019 15:07:13 answering member 1482 label Biography information for Graham Stuart
tabling member	4474 label Biography information for Kevin Hollinrake

1148817

registered interest
date	14/10/2019
answering body	Department for International Trade
answering dept id	202
answering dept short name	International Trade
answering dept sort name	International Trade
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 International Trade, with reference to the response of 24 May 2018 to freedom of information request number FOI2018/00517, whether the arms export licence referred to in that response remains extant; and whether her Department continues to issue arms export licences for the sale of Paveway bombs to (a) Saudi Arabia and (b) its coalition allies.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Kemptown
tabling member printed	Lloyd Russell-Moyle
uin	294
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2019 answer text <p>The licences referred to in FOI2018/00517 have all expired.</p><p> </p><p>Since the Court of Appeal’s judgment of 20 June 2019, new licences for exports to Saudi Arabia and other coalition partners for items which might be used in the conflict in Yemen, including Paveway bombs have been halted.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Beverley and Holderness answering member printed Graham Stuart question first answered 17/10/2019 14:51:26 answering member 1482 label Biography information for Graham Stuart
tabling member	4615 label Biography information for Lloyd Russell-Moyle

1148818

registered interest
date	14/10/2019
answering body	Department for International Trade
answering dept id	202
answering dept short name	International Trade
answering dept sort name	International Trade
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 International Trade, how many applications for licences for the export of arms to (a) Saudi Arabia and (b) its coalition partners have been received by her Department since 20 June 2019; what the dates of those licence applications were; and which type of (i) arms and (ii) export licence those applications were for.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Kemptown
tabling member printed	Lloyd Russell-Moyle
uin	295
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2019 answer text <p>We have received a) 86 applications for military rated items for export to Saudi Arabia and; b) 178 applications for military rated items for export to coalition partners.</p><p> </p><p>We cannot disclose any further information, as the applications are commercially sensitive.</p> answering member constituency Beverley and Holderness answering member printed Graham Stuart question first answered 17/10/2019 15:04:45 answering member 1482 label Biography information for Graham Stuart
tabling member	4615 label Biography information for Lloyd Russell-Moyle

1148399

registered interest
date	04/10/2019
answering body	Department for International Trade
answering dept id	202
answering dept short name	International Trade
answering dept sort name	International Trade
hansard heading	Overseas Trade: Israel
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what recent assessment has she made of the level of potential opportunities for (a) export and (b) trade with Israel.
tabling member constituency	Dudley North
tabling member printed	Ian Austin
uin	294687
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/10/2019 answer text <p>Israel remains a strategic priority for UK trade with total trade in goods and services between the UK and Israel totalling £4.2bn in 2019.</p><p> </p><p>Total UK exports to Israel amounted to £2.4bn in 2019 and our Embassy team in Tel Aviv, supported by the Department for International Trade (DIT) team in London and across the UK, continues to support and engage with business on a daily basis both to assess and realise potential opportunities for UK business in line with the Export Strategy, the government’s plan to increase UK total exports as a proportion of GDP to 35% and make Britain a 21st century exporting superpower. The strategy, which focuses on all global markets, including Israel, will encourage and inspire more businesses to export; inform businesses by providing practical assistance on exporting; connect UK businesses to overseas buyers and opportunities; and help provide finance through UK Export Finance to enhance the HMG offer to UK exporters. Through this strategy we will also continue to promote the UK as a bilateral trading partner, reassuring Israeli businesses that the UK remains open for business and remains an advocate for free trade and open markets.</p><p> </p><p>On trade more broadly, the Trade Continuity Agreement signed between the UK and Israel last February reflects the importance both countries attribute to the respective trading relationship and the potential opportunities that exist. I am delighted that the Hon. Member will be supporting the important and exciting work that builds on the agreement as our recently appointed Trade Envoy for Israel.</p> answering member constituency Beverley and Holderness answering member printed Graham Stuart question first answered 08/10/2019 16:00:35 answering member 1482 label Biography information for Graham Stuart
tabling member	1511 label Biography information for Lord Austin of Dudley

1148119

registered interest
date	03/10/2019
answering body	Department for International Trade
answering dept id	202
answering dept short name	International Trade
answering dept sort name	International Trade
hansard heading	Foreign Investment in UK
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what guidance his Department issues to foreign companies planning to invest in the UK.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	294168
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/10/2019 answer text <p>The Department for International Trade (DIT) plays a critical role in promoting the UK as the natural choice for overseas investment. The Department provides support to inward investors who wish to set up in the UK.</p><p> </p><p>These services range from providing information, guidance and support on the UK business environment, to access to finance, talent and skills, visas and migration, research and innovation, and sector experts.</p><p> </p><p>DIT also provides an end-to-end service for investors, through initiatives such as the Strategic Relationship Management Programme, both in the UK and overseas, working with colleagues across government, in London, UK regions and Devolved Administrations. This suite of services helps investors prosper and succeed, which in turn leads them to reinvest further in the UK. The UK has the highest stock of FDI of any nation in Europe.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Beverley and Holderness answering member printed Graham Stuart question first answered 08/10/2019 16:13:00 answering member 1482 label Biography information for Graham Stuart
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1147579

registered interest
date	01/10/2019
answering body	Department for International Trade
answering dept id	202
answering dept short name	International Trade
answering dept sort name	International Trade
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 International Trade, whether any licences have been granted for military equipment where the Saudi National Guard is certified as the end user since the Court of Appeal’s judgment of 20 June 2019 on arms sales at risk of being used in Yemen.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, West Derby
tabling member printed	Stephen Twigg
uin	292798
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/10/2019 answer text <p>Since the Court of Appeal’s judgment of 20 June 2019, no licences have been granted for military equipment where the Saudi National Guard is certified as the end user.</p> answering member constituency Beverley and Holderness answering member printed Graham Stuart question first answered 07/10/2019 16:12:12 answering member 1482 label Biography information for Graham Stuart
tabling member	167 label Biography information for Stephen Twigg

1146761

registered interest
date	27/09/2019
answering body	Department for International Trade
answering dept id	202
answering dept short name	International Trade
answering dept sort name	International Trade
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 International Trade, what the financial value was of arms exports to each member of the Saudi Arabian-led intervention in Yemen since 2015.
tabling member constituency	Leicester East
tabling member printed	Keith Vaz
uin	291540
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/10/2019 answer text <p>The Government publishes Official Statistics (on a quarterly and annual basis) about export licences on GOV.UK. These reports contain detailed information on export licences issued, refused or revoked, by destination, including the overall value, type (e.g. Military, Other) and a summary of the items covered by these licences. These can be found at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/strategic-export-controls-licensing-data." target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/strategic-export-controls-licensing-data.</a></p><p> </p><p>Bespoke reports (e.g. by country, goods type and for specific timeframes) may also be produced by registering on the Strategic Export Controls Reports and Statistics Website at: <a href="https://www.exportcontroldb.trade.gov.uk/sdb2/fox/sdb/SDBHOME" target="_blank">https://www.exportcontroldb.trade.gov.uk/sdb2/fox/sdb/SDBHOME</a></p><p> </p><p>The value of exports licensed in a given period is not necessarily a measure of actual exports shipped in that period. This is because most licences are valid for multiple shipments over two years and export values are only available for a subsection of licences (Standard Individual Export Licences). Some licences expire before they are fully used and in these circumstances exporters must apply for a new (duplicate) licence, which can result in a significant element of double counting in some periods.</p><p>All export licences are issued in strict accordance with the Consolidated EU and National Arms Export Licensing Criteria.</p> answering member constituency Beverley and Holderness answering member printed Graham Stuart question first answered 07/10/2019 12:21:26 answering member 1482 label Biography information for Graham Stuart
tabling member	338 label Biography information for Keith Vaz

1145768

registered interest
date	25/09/2019
answering body	Department for International Trade
answering dept id	202
answering dept short name	International Trade
answering dept sort name	International Trade
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 International Trade, with reference to her letter dated 16 September 2019 to the Chair of the Committees on Arms Export Controls, how the breaches of the undertaking given to the Court by the Secretary of State in the Order of the Court dated 20 June 2019 took place; and what steps she is taking to ensure no further breaches take place.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne North
tabling member printed	Catherine McKinnell
uin	290760
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/10/2019 answer text <p>As my Rt Hon. Friend the Secretary of State for International Trade said in her statement to Parliament on 26<sup>th</sup> September, as soon as the issue was brought to her attention on the 12<sup>th</sup> September, she took immediate action:</p><ul><li>Taking immediate steps to inform the Court and Parliament;</li><li>Putting in place immediate, interim procedures to make sure the error could not happen again;</li><li>Instigating a complete and full internal review of all licences granted for Saudi Arabia and its Coalition partners since 20 June;</li><li>The Permanent Secretary commissioned, on her behalf, a full independent investigation.</li></ul><p>This investigation will: (i) establish the precise circumstances in which these licences were granted; (ii) establish whether any other licences have been granted in breach of the Undertaking to the Court or the commitment to Parliament; and (iii) confirm that procedures are in place to ensure that no further such breaches can occur. The Director General Policy Group at the Department for Work and Pensions has been appointed to lead this investigation.</p><p>During the course of this investigation, licence applications for Saudi Arabia and its Coalition partners will be referred to a new weekly meeting of senior officials from the Department for International Trade, Foreign and Commonwealth Office and Ministry of Defence. (Some will have been refused by this point, for example where they fail to meet one or more of the Consolidated Criteria.) This meeting will reach a recommendation for Ministers as to whether applications are within the scope of the Undertaking and the Parliamentary Statement, applying a further checklist of questions which are designed to ensure that: (i) current and full information is available to enable an assessment of whether the items in question are for possible use in the conflict in Yemen; and (ii) if there has been any change in circumstances in the conflict in Yemen, this is properly included in the assessment. All recommendations to grant licences for the export of items to Saudi Arabia and its Coalition partners will now be referred to Ministers for decision.</p> answering member constituency Beverley and Holderness answering member printed Graham Stuart question first answered 08/10/2019 16:09:59 answering member 1482 label Biography information for Graham Stuart
tabling member	4125 label Biography information for Catherine McKinnell

1145795

registered interest
date	25/09/2019
answering body	Department for International Trade
answering dept id	202
answering dept short name	International Trade
answering dept sort name	International Trade
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 International Trade, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of Government adherence to the rule of law regarding the issuance of arms export licences to Saudi Arabia.
tabling member constituency	West Ham
tabling member printed	Lyn Brown
uin	290783
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/09/2019 answer text <p>The Secretary of State unreserved apologised to the Court and to Parliament for the inadvertent breaches of the Undertaking given to the Court by the then Secretary of State in the Order of the Court dated 20 June 2019.</p><p> </p><p>The Permanent Secretary on behalf of the Secretary of State has commissioned a full investigation to: (i) establish the precise circumstances in which these licences were granted; (ii) establish whether any other licences have been granted in breach of the undertaking to the Court or the commitment to Parliament; and (iii) confirm that procedures are in place to ensure that no further such breaches can occur. The Director General Policy Group at the Department for Work and Pensions has been appointed to lead this investigation.</p> answering member constituency Beverley and Holderness answering member printed Graham Stuart question first answered 30/09/2019 15:17:51 answering member 1482 label Biography information for Graham Stuart
tabling member	1583 label Biography information for Ms Lyn Brown

1145966

registered interest
date	25/09/2019
answering body	Department for International Trade
answering dept id	202
answering dept short name	International Trade
answering dept sort name	International Trade
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 International Trade, what steps she plans to take to ensure that her Department does not violate the court order on banning the issuing of new export licences to Saudi Arabia and its coalition partners for arms that could be used in Yemen.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Kemptown
tabling member printed	Lloyd Russell-Moyle
uin	291083
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/09/2019 answer text <p>As the Secretary of State said in her statement to Parliament on 26<sup>th</sup> September, as soon as the issue was brought to her attention on the 12<sup>th</sup> September, she took immediate action:</p><ul><li>Taking immediate steps to inform the Court and Parliament;</li><li>Putting in place immediate, interim procedures to make sure the error could not happen again;</li><li>Instigating a complete and full internal review of all licences granted for Saudi Arabia and its Coalition partners since 20 June;</li><li>Asking the Permanent Secretary to commission, on her behalf, a full independent investigation.</li></ul><p>This investigation will: (i) establish the precise circumstances in which these licences were granted; (ii) establish whether any other licences have been granted in breach of the Undertaking to the Court or the commitment to Parliament; and (iii) confirm that procedures are in place to ensure that no further such breaches can occur. The Director General Policy Group at the Department for Work and Pensions has been appointed to lead this investigation.</p><p> </p><p>During the course of this investigation, licence applications for Saudi Arabia and its Coalition partners will be referred to a new weekly meeting of senior officials from DIT, FCO and MOD. (Some will have been refused by this point, for example where they fail to meet one or more of the Consolidated Criteria.) This meeting will reach a recommendation for Ministers as to whether applications are within the scope of the Undertaking and the Parliamentary Statement, applying a further checklist of questions which are designed to ensure that: (i) current and full information is available to enable an assessment of whether the items in question are for possible use in the conflict in Yemen; and (ii) if there has been any change in circumstances in the conflict in Yemen, this is properly included in the assessment. All recommendations to grant licences for the export of items to Saudi Arabia and its Coalition partners will now be referred to Ministers for decision.</p> answering member constituency Beverley and Holderness answering member printed Graham Stuart grouped question UIN 290582 question first answered 30/09/2019 15:10:52 answering member 1482 label Biography information for Graham Stuart
tabling member	4615 label Biography information for Lloyd Russell-Moyle