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Arms Trade: Turkey

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Question for Department for International Trade

UIN 4979, tabled on 24 October 2019

Question

Caroline Lucas
Green Party
Brighton, Pavilion
Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, how many extant (a) single individual export licences and (b) open individual export licences there are for which the end-user is Turkey; and if she will make it her policy to suspend them.

Answer

Graham Stuart
Conservative
Beverley and Holderness
Commons

Answered on

29 October 2019

As of 25 October, there are a) 504 Standard Individual Export Licences (SIELs) [of which 331 include military rated items] and; b) 95 Open Individual Export Licences (OIELs) [of which 64 include military rated items] that are extant for which Turkey is the end user.

We continue to monitor the situation in Syria very closely and are considering the licensing position in the light of recent developments. No further export licences to Turkey for items which might be used in military operations in Syria will be granted while we do so.

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