HC Deb 06 February 1997 vol 289 cc697-8W
Mrs. Anne Campbell

To ask the President of the Board of Trade what licences for defence equipment exports to the United Arab Emirates have been issued since October 1995. [14248]

Mr. Nelson

[holding answer 5 February 1997]: The details of export licences issued to the United Arab Emirates between 1 October 1995 and 31 January 1997 are in the tables, which show the number of licences issued under each category of part III, group 1 of schedule 1 to the Export of Goods (Control) Order 1994.

Table 1: Permanent licences
Heading Number of licences issued
ML1 56
ML2 8
ML3 8
ML4 10
ML5 7
ML6 7
ML8 2
ML9 6
ML10 63
ML11 14
ML14 4
ML15 9
PL5001 1
PL5018 8
PL5021 11
PL5030 1
PL5031 2

There was a further licence issued which contained a variety of equipment. The total number of permanent licences issued in the period was 218.

Table 2: Temporary licences for (exhibitions and demonstrations, including licences where the United Arab Emirates was one of several destinations)
Heading Number of licences issued
ML1 3
ML2 3
ML4 6
ML5 9
ML6 10
ML7 3
ML9 1
ML10 3
ML11 13
ML14 1
ML15 15
PL5002 3
PL5006 8
PL5017 2
PL5018 1
Total 81