Question to the Department for Business and Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how many standard individual export licenses were granted for proposed exports to Chinese universities in (a) 2020, (b) 2021 and (c) 2022.
(a) 238 Standard Individual Export Licences (SIELs) were granted for proposed exports to Chinese universities in 2020.
(b) 223 SIELs were granted for proposed exports to Chinese universities in 2021.
(c) 125 SIELs were granted for proposed exports to Chinese universities in 2022.