Asked by: Anneliese Dodds (Labour (Co-op) - Oxford East)
Question to the Department for International Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, with reference to the guidance entitled Procurement policy note 03/14: promoting tax compliance, how many suppliers were allocated contracts by his Department as a result of complying with (a) one and (b) more than one of the mitigating circumstances after failing the tax compliance questions.
Answered by Graham Stuart
None of the Department for International Trade’s suppliers have failed to meet the tax compliance criteria in the Procurement Policy Note 03/14.
Asked by: Anneliese Dodds (Labour (Co-op) - Oxford East)
Question to the Department for International Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, how many suppliers have been excluded from bidding for contracts due to not meeting the criteria in his Department's Procurement Policy Note 03/14 in each year since 2014.
Answered by George Hollingbery
No suppliers have been excluded from bidding for contracts due to not meeting the criteria in Procurement Policy Note 03/14 since the Department for International Trade was created in July 2016.
Asked by: Anneliese Dodds (Labour (Co-op) - Oxford East)
Question to the Department for International Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, whether his Department plans to review arms sales to the Government of Cameroon.
Answered by Graham Stuart
The Government takes its export control responsibilities extremely seriously.
The UK operates one of the most robust export control regimes in the world. The Government will not grant export licences where to do so would be inconsistent with the Consolidated EU and National Arms Exports Licensing Criteria, which include the respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms in the country of final destination. The Government will not grant a licence where there is a clear risk that the items to exported might be used for internal repression.
Extant licences can be revoked at any time if the situation changes in Cameroon and those licences are no longer assessed as being consistent with the licensing criteria.
The policy remains as announced to parliament in a Written Ministerial Statement on 25 March 2014: https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201314/cmhansrd/cm140325/wmstext/140325m0001.htm#140325660000