HC Deb 18 October 1993 vol 230 cc152-3W
Mr. Llew Smith

To ask the President of the Board of Trade what proportion of his Export Control Organisation's time is taken up by(a) licence applications for sensitive destinations and (b) licensing for individual goods for non-sensitive destinations.

Mr. Needham

There are no figures setting out the proportion of time taken up by licensing in different areas and they could be obtained only at disproportionate cost. However, I would refer my hon. Friend to chapter 9 of the Export Control Organisation's annual report for 1992 in the House Library. This gives a breakdown of the work carried out by each of the licensing sections.

Within these sections the number of staff at grades AA-SEO is as follows:

Number
Sensitive Destinations Section (SDS) 11
COCOM Licensing Section (CLS) 6
Military and Atomic Licensing Section 13
Industrial Free World Licensing 5

These sections are managed by two G7 officers.