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1144251

	registered interest
	date	03/09/2019
	answering body	Department for International Trade
	answering dept id	202
	answering dept short name	International Trade
	answering dept sort name	International Trade
	hansard heading	Military Intervention: Yemen
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what assessment his Department has made of the implications for his policies of the UN expert panel report which stated that British-made laser guidance missile systems were found at an air raid site in Yemen in a strike that breached international humanitarian law; and whether his Department plans to appeal the Court of Appeal ruling of 20 June 2019 on the application of Campaign Against Arms Trade.
	tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
	tabling member printed	Catherine West
	uin	286323
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2019 answer text <p>The Government will take account of this report and other relevant evidence, information and reporting in making any decisions on the export licensing position under Criterion 2c of the Consolidated EU and National Arms Export Licensing Criteria. The Government will not grant a licence if there is a clear risk that the items might be used in the commission of a serious violation of international humanitarian law.</p><p> </p><p>The Secretary of State has submitted a Notice of Appeal to the Supreme Court in respect of the Court of Appeal’s judgement of 20 June 2019. Without prejudice to this, work is underway on the process for retaking licensing decisions in accordance with the Order of the Court of Appeal of 20 June 2019.</p> answering member constituency Beverley and Holderness answering member printed Graham Stuart question first answered 09/09/2019 14:49:58 answering member 1482 label Biography information for Graham Stuart
	tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

1144342

	registered interest
	date	03/09/2019
	answering body	Department for International Trade
	answering dept id	202
	answering dept short name	International Trade
	answering dept sort name	International Trade
	hansard heading	Export Controls
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, how many export licence requests have been received by her Department from businesses in (a) the UK, (b) the North East and (c) Wansbeck constituency in 2019.
	tabling member constituency	Wansbeck
	tabling member printed	Ian Lavery
	uin	286240
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/09/2019 answer text <p>Licensing data is published as Official Statistics on GOV.UK. It covers only licensing information for the whole of the UK. Regional and constituency data can only be provided at disproportionate cost.</p><p>Currently only information from Q1 2019 (1 January to 31 March 2019) has been published; this shows 3,343 export licence applications were received and 3,298 export licences were issued.</p><p>The department’s performance targets are for 70% of applications for Standard Individual Export Licences (SIELs) to be responded to within 20 working days, and 99% within 60 working days. The targets apply as soon as the applicant has supplied the full documentation necessary to support their application. The median processing time for SIELs in Q1 2019 was 11 working days. Data covering the period 1 April 2019 to 30 June 2019 will be published on 15 October 2019.</p> answering member constituency Beverley and Holderness answering member printed Graham Stuart grouped question UIN 286241 286242 question first answered 05/09/2019 11:18:34 answering member 1482 label Biography information for Graham Stuart
	tabling member	4139 label Biography information for Ian Lavery

1144343

	registered interest
	date	03/09/2019
	answering body	Department for International Trade
	answering dept id	202
	answering dept short name	International Trade
	answering dept sort name	International Trade
	hansard heading	Export Controls
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, how many export licence requests have been granted by her Department to businesses in (a) the UK, (b) the North East and (c) Wansbeck constituency in 2019.
	tabling member constituency	Wansbeck
	tabling member printed	Ian Lavery
	uin	286241
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/09/2019 answer text <p>Licensing data is published as Official Statistics on GOV.UK. It covers only licensing information for the whole of the UK. Regional and constituency data can only be provided at disproportionate cost.</p><p>Currently only information from Q1 2019 (1 January to 31 March 2019) has been published; this shows 3,343 export licence applications were received and 3,298 export licences were issued.</p><p>The department’s performance targets are for 70% of applications for Standard Individual Export Licences (SIELs) to be responded to within 20 working days, and 99% within 60 working days. The targets apply as soon as the applicant has supplied the full documentation necessary to support their application. The median processing time for SIELs in Q1 2019 was 11 working days. Data covering the period 1 April 2019 to 30 June 2019 will be published on 15 October 2019.</p> answering member constituency Beverley and Holderness answering member printed Graham Stuart grouped question UIN 286240 286242 question first answered 05/09/2019 11:18:34 answering member 1482 label Biography information for Graham Stuart
	tabling member	4139 label Biography information for Ian Lavery

1144344

	registered interest
	date	03/09/2019
	answering body	Department for International Trade
	answering dept id	202
	answering dept short name	International Trade
	answering dept sort name	International Trade
	hansard heading	Export Controls
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, how long on average it takes from receipt of an export licence request to that licence being processed.
	tabling member constituency	Wansbeck
	tabling member printed	Ian Lavery
	uin	286242
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/09/2019 answer text <p>Licensing data is published as Official Statistics on GOV.UK. It covers only licensing information for the whole of the UK. Regional and constituency data can only be provided at disproportionate cost.</p><p>Currently only information from Q1 2019 (1 January to 31 March 2019) has been published; this shows 3,343 export licence applications were received and 3,298 export licences were issued.</p><p>The department’s performance targets are for 70% of applications for Standard Individual Export Licences (SIELs) to be responded to within 20 working days, and 99% within 60 working days. The targets apply as soon as the applicant has supplied the full documentation necessary to support their application. The median processing time for SIELs in Q1 2019 was 11 working days. Data covering the period 1 April 2019 to 30 June 2019 will be published on 15 October 2019.</p> answering member constituency Beverley and Holderness answering member printed Graham Stuart grouped question UIN 286240 286241 question first answered 05/09/2019 11:18:34 answering member 1482 label Biography information for Graham Stuart
	tabling member	4139 label Biography information for Ian Lavery