§ Sandra OsborneTo ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if she will list the export licences which have been approved for arms sales to Israel in each of the last five years; and if she will make a statement. [80901]
§ Nigel GriffithsDetails of all export licences issued between 2 May 1997 and 31 December 2001 are published by destination in the Government's Annual Reports on Strategic Export Controls. Copies of the 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000 and 2001 Annual Reports are available from the Libraries of the House.
Between 1 January 2002 and 7 November 2002, 64 Standard Individual Export Licences (SIELs) and four Open Individual Export Licences (OIELs) were issued, for items on the Military List, where the end users were in Israel. Individual export licences might cover a range 36W of items with various ratings. Where this is so, the licence is included in the totals for all of the relevant ratings. Details are set out in the following table:
Rating Number of SIELs issued Number of OIELs issued ML3 1 — ML4 9 — ML5 13 — ML6 2 — ML7 1 — ML9 6 — ML10 12 — ML11 5 2 ML14 2 — ML15 3 — ML16 2 — ML18 1 — ML21 3 — ML22 1 — PL5017 2 — PL5021 1 — PL5031 4 2 In addition, items on the Military List might have been exported under certain Open General Export Licences. Copies of all Open General Export Licences are placed in the Libraries of the House.