Question to the Department for International Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, pursuant to the Answer of 13 January 2022 to Question 100568 on Arms Trade: Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates and with reference to the Written Statement of 8 December 2021, HCWS449 on Trade Policy Update, what assessment she has made of the potential effect of those changes on numbers of standard individual export licences to (a) Saudi Arabia and (b) United Arab Emirates.
It is not possible to predict the future number or value of applications for particular countries, as this is determined by industry submitting export licence applications, which will then be assessed on a case-by-case basis against our robust Strategic Export Licensing Criteria.