Question to the Department for Business and Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how many export licences were approved in (a) August 2024 and (b) each of the preceding 12 months.

Official Statistics for 2024 have not yet been published. Information covering January to July 2024 are planned to be released by November 2024.

The UK operates one of the most transparent export licensing systems in the world. We publish quarterly and annual statistics on all our export licensing decisions. These can be accessed here: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/strategic-export-controls-licensing-data

We do not publish monthly licensing statistics, but we have published quarterly statistics for 2023: