Question to the Department for Business and Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what measures are in place to ensure that UK-origin controlled goods comply with licensing requirements when transiting third countries.

The UK assesses every export licence application on a case-by-case basis against strict assessment criteria, the Strategic Export Licensing Criteria (the SELC). This includes an assessment on the risk of diversion of products to or through destinations subject to UK sanctions or arms embargoes.

Where an export transit or tranships other countries or territories en route to its final destination, compliance with each countries’ legislation and regulation is a matter for the exporter and their freight forwarder. The scope and application of transit and transhipment controls is a matter for each country’s own authorities.