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855554

	registered interest
	date	05/03/2018
	answering body	Department for International Trade
	answering dept id	202
	answering dept short name	International Trade
	answering dept sort name	International Trade
	hansard heading	Electronic Surveillance: Honduras
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	to ask the Secretary of State for Intentional Trade, with reference to the statement from the Honduran office in the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights condemning the use of force of force by the Honduras Government against protesters, if he will suspend the license for the unsent order of surveillance equipment to Honduras.
	tabling member constituency	Brighton, Kemptown
	tabling member printed	Lloyd Russell-Moyle
	uin	130861
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/03/2018 answer text <p>The goods on this licence were presented to UK Customs for export on 22 February 2018. This licence is now exhausted.</p><p>United Nations reports are considered as part of the application process. The issue of the licence was consistent with the Consolidated EU and National Arms Export Licensing Criteria and remained so at the time of export.</p> answering member constituency Beverley and Holderness answering member printed Graham Stuart question first answered 08/03/2018 17:40:07 answering member 1482 label Biography information for Graham Stuart
	tabling member	4615 label Biography information for Lloyd Russell-Moyle

846744

	registered interest
	date	22/02/2018
	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: Export Controls
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	What steps his Department has taken to ensure the compliance of the arms export sector with consolidated EU and national arms export licensing criteria.
	tabling member constituency	Brighton, Kemptown
	tabling member printed	Lloyd Russell-Moyle
	uin	903873
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/02/2018 answer text <p>Military exports from the UK require export licences. All export licence applications are considered on a case by case basis against the Consolidated EU and National Arms Export Licensing Criteria, based on the most up-to-date information and analysis available, including reports from NGOs and our overseas network.</p> answering member constituency Beverley and Holderness answering member printed Graham Stuart question first answered 22/02/2018 13:24:33 answering member 1482 label Biography information for Graham Stuart
	tabling member	4615 label Biography information for Lloyd Russell-Moyle

890490

	registered interest
	date	24/04/2018
	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, pursuant to the Answers of 16 April to Question 134891 and Question 134889, which office in his Department assigns application for licences to the Export Control Joint Unit as (a) red, (b) grey and (c) green.
	tabling member constituency	Brighton, Kemptown
	tabling member printed	Lloyd Russell-Moyle
	uin	137643
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/04/2018 answer text <p>All export licence applications are assessed on a case-by-case basis against the Consolidated EU and National Arms Export Licensing Criteria and are processed by the Export Control Joint Unit.</p><p>The categories represent an overview of the complexity of the country from an export licensing perspective and are used at the initial processing stage to allow for more efficient and effective processing.</p><p>The assessment process for considering licence applications is the same, regardless of whether they are sifted as red, grey or green.</p><p>The details of which countries are categorised as either red, grey or green are confidential.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Beverley and Holderness answering member printed Graham Stuart grouped question UIN 137641 137642 question first answered 27/04/2018 13:41:47 answering member 1482 label Biography information for Graham Stuart
	tabling member	4615 label Biography information for Lloyd Russell-Moyle

890487

	registered interest
	date	24/04/2018
	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, pursuant to the Answers of 16 April 2018 to Question 134891 and Question 134889 on Export Controls, what the process is for the consideration of applications classified as (a) red, (b) grey and (c) green.
	tabling member constituency	Brighton, Kemptown
	tabling member printed	Lloyd Russell-Moyle
	uin	137641
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/04/2018 answer text <p>All export licence applications are assessed on a case-by-case basis against the Consolidated EU and National Arms Export Licensing Criteria and are processed by the Export Control Joint Unit.</p><p>The categories represent an overview of the complexity of the country from an export licensing perspective and are used at the initial processing stage to allow for more efficient and effective processing.</p><p>The assessment process for considering licence applications is the same, regardless of whether they are sifted as red, grey or green.</p><p>The details of which countries are categorised as either red, grey or green are confidential.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Beverley and Holderness answering member printed Graham Stuart grouped question UIN 137642 137643 question first answered 27/04/2018 13:41:46 answering member 1482 label Biography information for Graham Stuart
	tabling member	4615 label Biography information for Lloyd Russell-Moyle

890488

	registered interest
	date	24/04/2018
	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, pursuant to the Answers of 16 April 2018 to Question 134891 and Question 134889 on Export Controls, what criteria his Department uses to assign licences as (a) red, (b) grey and (c) green.
	tabling member constituency	Brighton, Kemptown
	tabling member printed	Lloyd Russell-Moyle
	uin	137642
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/04/2018 answer text <p>All export licence applications are assessed on a case-by-case basis against the Consolidated EU and National Arms Export Licensing Criteria and are processed by the Export Control Joint Unit.</p><p>The categories represent an overview of the complexity of the country from an export licensing perspective and are used at the initial processing stage to allow for more efficient and effective processing.</p><p>The assessment process for considering licence applications is the same, regardless of whether they are sifted as red, grey or green.</p><p>The details of which countries are categorised as either red, grey or green are confidential.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Beverley and Holderness answering member printed Graham Stuart grouped question UIN 137641 137643 question first answered 27/04/2018 13:41:47 answering member 1482 label Biography information for Graham Stuart
	tabling member	4615 label Biography information for Lloyd Russell-Moyle

885274

	registered interest
	date	17/04/2018
	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, pursuant to the Answer of 16 April 2018 to Question 134889, on Export Controls, for what reason his Department sifts licence applications into three categories.
	tabling member constituency	Brighton, Kemptown
	tabling member printed	Lloyd Russell-Moyle
	uin	136139
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/04/2018 answer text <p>The three categories are used in an initial sift of all applications, to allow for more efficient and effective processing.</p><p> </p><p>The sifting process has no bearing on the outcome of the application. All applications are assessed on a case-by-case basis against the Consolidated EU and National Arms Export Licensing Criteria.</p> answering member constituency Beverley and Holderness answering member printed Graham Stuart question first answered 23/04/2018 12:35:51 answering member 1482 label Biography information for Graham Stuart
	tabling member	4615 label Biography information for Lloyd Russell-Moyle

882763

	registered interest
	date	13/04/2018
	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: Export Controls
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, how may export licences for (a) arms and (b) dual use goods have been denied under criterion 8 of the Consolidated EU and National Arms Export Licensing Criteria; and if he will publish the names of the countries from which each denied licence application came.
	tabling member constituency	Brighton, Kemptown
	tabling member printed	Lloyd Russell-Moyle
	uin	135825
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/04/2018 answer text <p>The Government publishes Official Statistics (on a quarterly and annual basis) of licences granted and refused for military exports on GOV.UK and 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>In the last ten years one licence has been refused under criterion 8 of the Consolidated EU and National Arms Export Licensing Criteria.</p><p>The licence application in question was submitted by an UK exporter and was refused in 2010. The intended destination of the goods was Sierra Leone.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Beverley and Holderness answering member printed Graham Stuart question first answered 18/04/2018 14:47:36 answering member 1482 label Biography information for Graham Stuart
	tabling member	4615 label Biography information for Lloyd Russell-Moyle

882764

	registered interest
	date	13/04/2018
	answering body	Department for International Trade
	answering dept id	202
	answering dept short name	International Trade
	answering dept sort name	International Trade
	hansard heading	Department for International Trade: Staff
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, how many employees in his Department are working on the (a) promotion of arms exports and (b) control of arms exports.
	tabling member constituency	Brighton, Kemptown
	tabling member printed	Lloyd Russell-Moyle
	uin	135826
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/04/2018 answer text <p>Within the Department for International Trade, the Defence and Security Organisation (DIT DSO) helps the UK defence and security industries to export. The Export Control Joint Unit (ECJU), which is a joint unit of DIT, FCO and MOD, administers the UK's system of export controls.</p><p> </p><p>DIT DSO currently has a total of 120 staff. The ECJU currently has a total of 96 staff.</p> answering member constituency Beverley and Holderness answering member printed Graham Stuart question first answered 18/04/2018 15:19:20 answering member 1482 label Biography information for Graham Stuart
	tabling member	4615 label Biography information for Lloyd Russell-Moyle

882319

	registered interest
	date	13/04/2018
	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 applications to the (a) Export Control Joint Unit and (b) Export Control Organisation which were referred up to ministerial level were (a) approved and (b) denied for each and every year from year since 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Brighton, Kemptown
	tabling member printed	Lloyd Russell-Moyle
	uin	135387
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/04/2018 answer text <p>We do not hold a central record of the licence applications referred to Ministers.</p> answering member constituency Beverley and Holderness answering member printed Graham Stuart question first answered 18/04/2018 15:53:19 answering member 1482 label Biography information for Graham Stuart
	tabling member	4615 label Biography information for Lloyd Russell-Moyle

873775

	registered interest
	date	28/03/2018
	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, for which periods since 2010, members of the the Gulf Cooperation Council received a green rating for each of the 22 groups of military items on the UK Strategic Export Control Lists.
	tabling member constituency	Brighton, Kemptown
	tabling member printed	Lloyd Russell-Moyle
	uin	134889
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/04/2018 answer text <p>RAG ratings are not used to assess export licence applications.</p><p>Each export licence application is assessed on a case-by-case basis against the Consolidated EU and National Arms Export Licensing Criteria, which provide a thorough risk assesment framework and require us to think hard about the impact of providing equipment and its capabilities.</p><p>Standard Individual Export Licence applications are sifted initially by end user destination into three broad categories: Red, Grey and Green. they have no bearing on the outcome of the application and are confidential.</p> answering member constituency Beverley and Holderness answering member printed Graham Stuart grouped question UIN 134891 question first answered 16/04/2018 15:02:12 answering member 1482 label Biography information for Graham Stuart
	tabling member	4615 label Biography information for Lloyd Russell-Moyle