Question to the Department for International Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, if he will clarify the divergence between his Answer of 11 March 2019 to Question 229204 which stated that two Standard Individual Export Licences for exports to Saudi Arabia were referred to Ministers in 2016 and the FCO's Freedom of Information response ref. 0706-17 which stated that between 1 July 2016 and 30 September 2016, six export licence applications were referred to Ministers.

The Freedom of Information response concerned cases referred by FCO to FCO Ministers, whereas the response to Question 229204 referred to cases referred by DIT to DIT Ministers.