HC Deb 28 April 2003 vol 404 c175W
Mrs. Ellman

To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if she will list UK arms sales to Syria from 1998 to 2002. [110249]

Nigel Griffiths

The Department of Trade and Industry's Export Control Organisation records details of all export licence applications issued and refused, which are published by destination in the Government's Annual Reports on Strategic Export Controls. Copies of the 1998, 1999, 2000 and 2001 Annual Reports are available in the Libraries of the House. The 2002 Annual Report will be published in due course.

The granting of a licence does not necessarily translate into actual arms sales.

Mrs. Ellman

To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if she will list UK military licences granted to Syria in 2003. [110250]

Nigel Griffiths

Between 1 January 2003 and 7 April 2003, no Standard Individual Export Licences or Open Individual Export Licences were issued, where the end users were in Syria.