§ Mr. TynanTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will make a statement on the Strategic Export Controls report 2001. [74664]
§ Mr. Mike O'BrienI refer my hon. Friend to the answer I gave to my hon. Friend the Member for Barnsley, East and Mexborough (Mr. Jeff Ennis) on 19 July 2002,Official Report, column 611W.
The 2001 Annual Report on Strategic Export Controls was published on 19 July. The annual reports were an innovation of this Government and have opened our policy to unprecedented public scrutiny. We maintain one of the most effective and transparent export licensing system in the World.
§ Llew SmithTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will list the applications for the export of military equipment to(a) the United States and (b) Israel which have been turned down since May 1997. [73563]
§ Nigel GriffithsI have been asked to reply.
Details of all relevant applications for the export of items on the Military List, where the end users were in the United States of America and Israel, which were refused 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 15 July 2002, 42 Standard Individual Export Licence (SIEL) applications and 1 Open Individual Export Licence (OIEL) application were refused in full, for items on the Military List, where the end users were in Israel. During the same period 5 SIEL applications and no OIEL applications were refused in full, for items on the Military List, to end users in the United States of America.