§ Mr. CousinsTo ask the President of the Board of Trade how many export licences were(a) applied for and (b) granted under the military list between 1986 and 1989. [29162]
§ Mr. Ian TaylorThe required information' is as follows:
1986 1987 1988 1989 Applications received 16,847 17,590 15,697 14,601 Licences granted 2— 16,745 316,005 13,584 Notes: 1 The figures include all applications for licences for equipment classified under Group 1 of the Export of Goods (Control) Order. This includes all goods classified "ML", for 1989, it also includes goods classified "PL" in Group 1 of the Order. 2 For 1986, separate figures were not kept for applications granted and refused. The provision of this information would incur disproportionate costs. 3 The figures make it appear that more licences were issued in 1988 than the number of applications received. This is because the licensing process always carries over from year to the next. Hence some of the licences issued in one year will have been received in the previous year. 1. The corresponding figures for all export licences received (including those for the military goods listed above) for the period in question are:
- 1986: 89,705
- 1987: 97,842
- 1988: 92,280
- 1989: 75,952