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Arms Trade: Israel

Question for Department for Business, Innovation and Skills

UIN 7622, tabled on 16 July 2015

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what military hardware and components the UK has imported from Israel in each of the last two years.

Answered on

23 July 2015

Firearms, firearms component parts and ammunition are the only items of military equipment subject to import licensing controls.

In 2013, BIS Import Licensing Branch issued 5 import licences for imports from Israel of 250 firearms and 70 firearms component parts. In 2014, BIS Import Licensing Branch issued 10 import licences for imports from Israel of 240 firearms and 2760 firearms component parts.

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Department for Business, Innovation and Skills