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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

1306347

	registered interest
	date	25/03/2021
	answering body	Department for International Trade
	answering dept id	202
	answering dept short name	International Trade
	answering dept sort name	International Trade
	hansard heading	Investment and Trade
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, with reference to his Department's press release, Creation of four major new Trade and Investment Hubs across the UK, published on 23 March 2021, what steps her Department is taking to work with (a) consumers and (b) other interest groups via specific outreach in those areas and other parts of the UK.
	tabling member constituency	Brighton, Kemptown
	tabling member printed	Lloyd Russell-Moyle
	uin	175977
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/04/2021 answer text <p>The new Trade and Investment Hubs will be home to teams of export and investment specialists. These teams can provide businesses with expert support and advice to help them maximise their export potential. They will also help businesses boost their trade in new markets overseas, gain better access to major trade markets like Japan, the US and India, and feed directly into the Department for International Trade’s (DIT) free trade agreements programme.</p><p> </p><p>The new Hubs build on the nationwide support already offered by DIT. This support includes the UK Export Finance offer, the £38m Internationalisation Fund, the Export Academy programme, our network of around 300 International Trade Advisors across England, and over 400 Regional Export Champions.</p> answering member constituency Beverley and Holderness answering member printed Graham Stuart grouped question UIN 175978 question first answered 13/04/2021 15:40:15 answering member 1482 label Biography information for Graham Stuart
	tabling member	4615 label Biography information for Lloyd Russell-Moyle

1306349

	registered interest
	date	25/03/2021
	answering body	Department for International Trade
	answering dept id	202
	answering dept short name	International Trade
	answering dept sort name	International Trade
	hansard heading	Investment and Trade
	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 Department's press release, Creation of four major new Trade and Investment Hubs across the UK, published on 23 March 2021, if she will expand the remit of those hubs to widen outreach by engaging customers on trade across the UK.
	tabling member constituency	Brighton, Kemptown
	tabling member printed	Lloyd Russell-Moyle
	uin	175978
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/04/2021 answer text <p>The new Trade and Investment Hubs will be home to teams of export and investment specialists. These teams can provide businesses with expert support and advice to help them maximise their export potential. They will also help businesses boost their trade in new markets overseas, gain better access to major trade markets like Japan, the US and India, and feed directly into the Department for International Trade’s (DIT) free trade agreements programme.</p><p> </p><p>The new Hubs build on the nationwide support already offered by DIT. This support includes the UK Export Finance offer, the £38m Internationalisation Fund, the Export Academy programme, our network of around 300 International Trade Advisors across England, and over 400 Regional Export Champions.</p> answering member constituency Beverley and Holderness answering member printed Graham Stuart grouped question UIN 175977 question first answered 13/04/2021 15:40:15 answering member 1482 label Biography information for Graham Stuart
	tabling member	4615 label Biography information for Lloyd Russell-Moyle

1169087

	registered interest
	date	07/01/2020
	answering body	Department for International Trade
	answering dept id	202
	answering dept short name	International Trade
	answering dept sort name	International Trade
	hansard heading	Raytheon: USA
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, with reference to extant licences for the export of controlled goods from Raytheon UK to the US, if she will set out (a) the type of those licences, (b) their start and end dates, (c) their item codes in the Consolidated list of strategic military and dual-use items that require export authorisation and (d) the quantity of goods exported under those respective licences.
	tabling member constituency	Brighton, Kemptown
	tabling member printed	Lloyd Russell-Moyle
	uin	1037
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2020 answer text <p>Providing the detailed information requested would disclose commercially sensitive information, however we can advise there are 39 extant Standard Individual Export Licences (SIELs) granted to Raytheon UK, between January 2018 and September 2019 for export to the USA. The licences are valid for two years and cover the following ratings: ML4, ML10, ML11 and ML22.</p><p>Licensing data is provided based on information published as Official Statistics up to September 2019. Licences granted from 1 October 2019 onwards have not, as yet, been published as official statistics on GOV.UK and therefore information about those licences cannot be disclosed.</p> answering member constituency Beverley and Holderness answering member printed Graham Stuart question first answered 15/01/2020 17:08:06 answering member 1482 label Biography information for Graham Stuart previous answer version 773 answering member constituency Beverley and Holderness answering member printed Graham Stuart answering member 1482 label Biography information for Graham Stuart
	tabling member	4615 label Biography information for Lloyd Russell-Moyle

1171349

	registered interest
	date	16/01/2020
	answering body	Department for International Trade
	answering dept id	202
	answering dept short name	International Trade
	answering dept sort name	International Trade
	hansard heading	Raytheon: 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 extant licences for the export of controlled goods from Raytheon UK to Saudi Arabia, if she will set out (a) the type of those licences, (b) their start and end dates, (c) their item codes in the Consolidated list of strategic military and dual-use items that require export authorisation and (d) the quantity of goods exported under those respective licences.
	tabling member constituency	Brighton, Kemptown
	tabling member printed	Lloyd Russell-Moyle
	uin	4439
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/01/2020 answer text <p>Providing the detailed information requested would disclose commercially sensitive information, however we can advise there is one extant Standard Individual Export Licence (SIEL) granted to Raytheon UK for export to Saudi Arabia. The licence was issued in the first quarter of 2018, with a two year validity and covers the item rating ML4.</p> answering member constituency Beverley and Holderness answering member printed Graham Stuart question first answered 21/01/2020 12:08:20 answering member 1482 label Biography information for Graham Stuart
	tabling member	4615 label Biography information for Lloyd Russell-Moyle

1198639

	registered interest
	date	01/06/2020
	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: Inspections
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, which sites used by holders of general export licences for military goods have not been inspected by her Department under Article 31 of the Export Control Order 2008 in each of the last 36 months apart from the BAE site at Warton.
	tabling member constituency	Brighton, Kemptown
	tabling member printed	Lloyd Russell-Moyle
	uin	52343
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/06/2020 answer text <p>HM Government supports responsible defence industries, which make a major contribution to our prosperity. Licensing controls are a vital service to industry, protecting the reputation and legitimacy of business.</p><p>Inspections of records under section 31 are in relation to a company’s use of general licences. The purpose of inspections is to get assurance that users of general licences meet the terms and conditions of their licences.</p><p>The scope of the general licences includes only items and destinations that are consistent with the Consolidated Criteria. Those published by the Department for International Trade have all been pre-assessed for risk and agreed by all relevant departments that they can be published. Our compliance checks are focused where higher risks of non-compliance lie.</p><p>An answer detailing the sites that have not been inspected in the past 36 months can only be provided at disproportionate cost, as my Department would have to manually review every existing and surrendered open licence registration.</p> answering member constituency North East Hampshire answering member printed Mr Ranil Jayawardena question first answered 10/06/2020 15:43:17 answering member 4498 label Biography information for Mr Ranil Jayawardena
	tabling member	4615 label Biography information for Lloyd Russell-Moyle

1222072

	registered interest
	date	08/07/2020
	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, which Minister in her Department was responsible for the approval of any arms export licences for (a) Saudi Arabia and (b) its coalition partners from 17 July 2016 to 9 January 2018.
	tabling member constituency	Brighton, Kemptown
	tabling member printed	Lloyd Russell-Moyle
	uin	71133
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/07/2020 answer text <p>My Rt Hon. Friend the Secretary of State for International Trade is ultimately responsible for decisions on all strategic export licences.</p><p> </p><p>Her predecessor, my Rt Hon. Friend for North Somerset, held the post during the dates referred to.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North East Hampshire answering member printed Mr Ranil Jayawardena question first answered 13/07/2020 14:41:47 answering member 4498 label Biography information for Mr Ranil Jayawardena
	tabling member	4615 label Biography information for Lloyd Russell-Moyle

1224058

	registered interest
	date	13/07/2020
	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 the Undersecretary of State for her Department from 17 July 2016 to 9 January 2018 signed arms export licences to (a) Saudi Arabia or (b) its coalition partners.
	tabling member constituency	Brighton, Kemptown
	tabling member printed	Lloyd Russell-Moyle
	uin	73044
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/07/2020 answer text <p>The information requested could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency North East Hampshire answering member printed Mr Ranil Jayawardena question first answered 16/07/2020 15:01:17 answering member 4498 label Biography information for Mr Ranil Jayawardena
	tabling member	4615 label Biography information for Lloyd Russell-Moyle

1172565

	registered interest
	date	22/01/2020
	answering body	Department for International Trade
	answering dept id	202
	answering dept short name	International Trade
	answering dept sort name	International Trade
	hansard heading	Bombs: Export Controls
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, whether the Government has issued arms export licences for finished bombs to Raytheon UK in the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Brighton, Kemptown
	tabling member printed	Lloyd Russell-Moyle
	uin	6735
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/01/2020 answer text <p>No licences have been granted to Raytheon UK for finished bombs in the last five years.</p> answering member constituency Beverley and Holderness answering member printed Graham Stuart question first answered 27/01/2020 13:33:08 answering member 1482 label Biography information for Graham Stuart
	tabling member	4615 label Biography information for Lloyd Russell-Moyle

1169086

	registered interest
	date	07/01/2020
	answering body	Department for International Trade
	answering dept id	202
	answering dept short name	International Trade
	answering dept sort name	International Trade
	hansard heading	Raytheon: USA
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, whether her Department has issued arms export licences for the export of items on the UK strategic export control list from Raytheon UK to the US since 20 June 2019.
	tabling member constituency	Brighton, Kemptown
	tabling member printed	Lloyd Russell-Moyle
	uin	1036
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/01/2020 answer text <p>Export licences have been issued to Raytheon since 20 June 2019, permitting the export of controlled items to the US.</p> answering member constituency Beverley and Holderness answering member printed Graham Stuart question first answered 13/01/2020 17:23:44 answering member 1482 label Biography information for Graham Stuart
	tabling member	4615 label Biography information for Lloyd Russell-Moyle