Open Individual Export Licences: Cryptography

(asked on 25th February 2019) - View Source

Question to the Department for International Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, pursuant to the Answer of 11 February 2019 to Question 217627 on Arms Trade: Saudi Arabia and the Answer of 21 February 2019 to Question 222576 on Cryptography: Exports, for what reason (a) the Open Individual Export Licences in relation to air-to-surface missiles are not commercially confidential and (b) the Open Individual Export Licenses for (i) 5E002, (ii) 5A002 and (iii) 5D002 are commercially confidential.


Answered by
Graham Stuart Portrait
Graham Stuart
Minister of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)
This question was answered on 28th February 2019

Disclosure of the names of those in receipt of Open Individual Export Licences would prejudice commercial interests. Where the information is already in the public domain, as is the case of OIELS for the air-to-surface missiles licence, there would be no disclosure that prejudiced commercial interests.

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