Arms Trade: Export Controls

(asked on 13th April 2018) - View Source

Question to the Department for International Trade:

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.


Answered by
Graham Stuart Portrait
Graham Stuart
Minister of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)
This question was answered on 18th April 2018

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: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/strategic-export-controls-licensing-data

In the last ten years one licence has been refused under criterion 8 of the Consolidated EU and National Arms Export Licensing Criteria.

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.

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