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886304

registered interest
date	18/04/2018
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 many arms export licences have been refused in the past year; and what the country of destination was in each such application.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff Central
tabling member printed	Jo Stevens
uin	136499
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/04/2018 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>Currently this includes information up to 31 December 2017. Information covering 1 January to 31 March 2018 will be published in July 2018.</p> answering member constituency Beverley and Holderness answering member printed Graham Stuart question first answered 23/04/2018 14:24:31 answering member 1482 label Biography information for Graham Stuart
tabling member	4425 label Biography information for Jo Stevens

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

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

845536

registered interest
date	20/02/2018
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	To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, pursuant to the Answer of 5 February 2018 to Question 126450, whether his statement that the Defence and Security Organisation and the Export Control Joint Unit conduct their business entirely separately is consistent with the statement in the United Kingdom Strategic Export Controls Annual Report 2016 that the Export Control Joint Unit works in close partnership with the Defence and Security Organisation.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Kemptown
tabling member printed	Lloyd Russell-Moyle
uin	128508
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/02/2018 answer text <p>The Export Control Joint Unit is not involved in any aspect of export promotion and DSO is not involved or consulted in export licensing decisions.</p><p>Regarding working in close partnership, the annual report said &quot;ECJU also continued to work in close partnership with DIT's Defence &amp; Security Organisation (DSO) at regional events for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). These helped ECJU to explain export control requirements directly to defence and security businesses, reaching around 200 people, around 20% of whom were new to exporting&quot;.</p> answering member constituency Beverley and Holderness answering member printed Graham Stuart question first answered 23/02/2018 14:22:59 answering member 1482 label Biography information for Graham Stuart
tabling member	4615 label Biography information for Lloyd Russell-Moyle

837331

registered interest
date	05/02/2018
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	To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what assessment his Department has made of whether locating DSO, which promotes arms exports, and ECJU, which controls arms exports, in the same Department has created a potential conflict of interest.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Kemptown
tabling member printed	Lloyd Russell-Moyle
uin	126450
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/02/2018 answer text <p>The Defence and Security Organisation (DSO) and Export Control Joint Unit conduct their business entirely separately. DSO is not involved or consulted in export licensing decisions.</p><p> </p><p>All export licence applications are assessed on a case-by-case basis against the Consolidated EU and National Arms Export Licensing Criteria, taking account of all relevant factors at the time of the application. We will not grant a licence if to do so would be inconsistent with these Criteria.</p><p> </p><p>We do not believe that co-location within the DIT creates any conflicts of interest.</p> answering member constituency Beverley and Holderness answering member printed Graham Stuart question first answered 08/02/2018 17:58:34 answering member 1482 label Biography information for Graham Stuart
tabling member	4615 label Biography information for Lloyd Russell-Moyle

830002

registered interest
date	24/01/2018
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, what vetting procedures the Export Control Joint Unit carries out on entities that apply to the Government for licenses to broker or deal arms.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Kemptown
tabling member printed	Lloyd Russell-Moyle
uin	124725
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2018 answer text <p>All export licence applications are considered on a case-by-case basis against the Consolidated EU and National Arms Export Licensing Criteria, known as the Consolidated Criteria, based on the most up-to-date information and analysis available, including reports from NGOs and our overseas network.</p><p> </p><p>The Export Control Joint Unit takes account of all relevant risks related to the Consolidated EU and National Arms Export Licensing Criteria when assessing licence applications. The criteria focus on the end use of the proposed transfers and therefore routine vetting procedures relate to end users rather than applicants.</p> answering member constituency Beverley and Holderness answering member printed Graham Stuart question first answered 29/01/2018 15:29:39 answering member 1482 label Biography information for Graham Stuart
tabling member	4615 label Biography information for Lloyd Russell-Moyle

765914

registered interest
date	06/10/2017
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, what recent assessment he has made of the robustness and transparency of the UK's arms export licensing system.
tabling member constituency	Tewkesbury
tabling member printed	Mr Laurence Robertson
uin	106015
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/10/2017 answer text <p>All export licences are issued in strict accordance with the Consolidated EU and National Arms Export Licensing Criteria.</p><p>The UK publishes on GOV.UK every quarter, information relating to export licences granted, refused and revoked. The information includes a description of the goods, its classification, the end user country and the value as provided by the exporter.</p> answering member constituency Wyre Forest answering member printed Mark Garnier question first answered 12/10/2017 11:45:36 answering member 4074 label Biography information for Mark Garnier
tabling member	253 label Biography information for Mr Laurence Robertson

760845

registered interest
date	14/09/2017
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, what progress has been made on identifying what continued co-operation with the EU on matters of arms and strategic export controls will remain as the UK leaves the EU ; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
tabling member printed	Catherine West
uin	105305
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/10/2017 answer text <p>The scope of future cooperation between the UK and EU on strategic export controls after the UK leaves the EU will be subject to negotiation as part of agreeing the future relationship between the UK and EU.</p> answering member constituency Wyre Forest answering member printed Mark Garnier question first answered 12/10/2017 12:26:18 answering member 4074 label Biography information for Mark Garnier
tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

723945

registered interest
date	24/04/2017
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, which (a) Government department and (b) body is responsible for (i) assessing and (ii) authorising arms export applications.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Hall Green
tabling member printed	Mr Roger Godsiff
uin	71767
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/04/2017 answer text <p>The Export Control Organisation within the Department for International Trade is the UK’s licensing authority for military and dual use exports, and the Secretary of State for International Trade is responsible for decisions to grant or refuse export licences. These decisions are always informed by assessments carried out against the Consolidated EU and National Arms Export Licensing Criteria by a number of advisory Government Departments.</p><p>I refer the hon Member for Birmingham, Hall Green to the answer I gave to the hon Member for Rutherglen and Hamilton West on 25 April 2017, UIN: 70268.</p> answering member constituency Wyre Forest answering member printed Mark Garnier question first answered 27/04/2017 09:46:42 answering member 4074 label Biography information for Mark Garnier
tabling member	304 label Biography information for Mr Roger Godsiff

720956

registered interest
date	13/04/2017
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, which Government department has the lead responsibility for assessing each of the Consolidated EU and National Arms Export Licensing Criteria.
tabling member constituency	Rutherglen and Hamilton West
tabling member printed	Margaret Ferrier
uin	70268
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/04/2017 answer text <table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong> </strong> <strong>Criterion</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Lead Department</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Criterion 1</p></td><td><p>FCO</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Criterion 2</p></td><td><p>FCO</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Criterion 3</p></td><td><p>FCO</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Criterion 4</p></td><td><p>FCO</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Criterion 5</p></td><td><p>MOD</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Criterion 6</p></td><td><p>FCO</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Criterion 7</p></td><td><p>MOD and FCO</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Criterion 8</p></td><td><p>DfID</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Further details are set out in Annex A of the United Kingdom Strategic Export Controls Annual Report 2015. Although this publication predates the creation of the Department for International Trade, the lead departments as set out above are unchanged. (<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/uk-annual-report-on-strategic-export-controls-2015" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/uk-annual-report-on-strategic-export-controls-2015</a>).</p> answering member constituency Wyre Forest answering member printed Mark Garnier question first answered 25/04/2017 13:38:17 answering member 4074 label Biography information for Mark Garnier
tabling member	4386 label Biography information for Margaret Ferrier