Question to the Department for International Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, for what reason information on licences granted for the export of arms to Israel is not released for six months after those licences were granted.

Official licensing statistics are published on a quarterly basis, three and a half months after the end of the reported time period. For example, data for 1^st January to 31^st March 2021 was published 13^th July 2021.

This is to allow for any reporting delays to be captured in the data, checking processes to be carried out, etc. These processes are to ensure accurate and reliable statistics in line with the Code of Practice for Statistics.