Question to the Department for International Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, how many applications for (a) Standard Individual Export Licences, (b) Open Individual Export Licences and (c) Open Individual Trade Control Export Licences for exports to Saudi Arabia were referred to Ministers by the Export Control Joint Unit and its predecessor the Export Control Organisation in each year since 2015.

The following are the number of applications to Saudi Arabia that have been referred to Ministers since 2015:

2015:

a) 2 Standard Individual Export Licences;

b) 0 Open Individual Export Licence;

c) 0 Open Individual Trade Control Licences;

2016:

d) 13 Standard Individual Export Licences;

e) 0 Open Individual Export Licence;

f) 0 Open Individual Trade Control Licences;

2017:

g) 23 Standard Individual Export Licences;

h) 2 Open Individual Export Licence;

i) 0 Open Individual Trade Control Licences;

2018:

j) 13 Standard Individual Export Licences;

k) 0 Open Individual Export Licence;

l) 0 Open Individual Trade Control Licences;