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Export Controls: Saudi Arabia

Question for Department for International Trade

UIN 229204, tabled on 6 March 2019

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, how many applications for (a) Standard Individual Export Licences, (b) Open Individual Export Licences and (c) Open Individual Trade Control Export Licences for exports to Saudi Arabia were referred to Ministers by the Export Control Joint Unit and its predecessor the Export Control Organisation in each year since 2015.

Answered on

11 March 2019

This answer is a correction from the original answer.

The following are the number of applications to Saudi Arabia that have been referred to Ministers since 2015:

2015:

a) 2 Standard Individual Export Licences;

b) 0 Open Individual Export Licence;

c) 0 Open Individual Trade Control Licences;

2016:

d) 13 Standard Individual Export Licences;

e) 0 Open Individual Export Licence;

f) 0 Open Individual Trade Control Licences;

2017:

g) 23 Standard Individual Export Licences;

h) 2 Open Individual Export Licence;

i) 0 Open Individual Trade Control Licences;

2018:

j) 13 Standard Individual Export Licences;

k) 0 Open Individual Export Licence;

l) 0 Open Individual Trade Control Licences;

Original answer

The following are the number of applications to Saudi Arabia that have been referred to Ministers since 2015:

2015:

a) 2 Standard Individual Export Licences;

b) 0 Open Individual Export Licence;

c) 0 Open Individual Trade Control Licences;

2016:

d) 2 Standard Individual Export Licences;

e) 0 Open Individual Export Licence;

f) 0 Open Individual Trade Control Licences;

2017:

g) 18 Standard Individual Export Licences;

h) 1 Open Individual Export Licence;

i) 0 Open Individual Trade Control Licences;

2018:

j) 13 Standard Individual Export Licences;

k) 0 Open Individual Export Licence;

l) 0 Open Individual Trade Control Licences;

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