§ Ann ClwydTo ask the President of the Board of Trade when her Department will publish the results of its consultation on export licences. [20036]
§ Mrs. RocheAs my right hon. Friend the President of the Board of Trade stated on 5 June 1997,Official Report, column 236, copies of the responses to the consultation document on strategic export controls (with the exception of two for which confidentiality was requested), were placed in the libraries of both Houses in February of this year as well as the library of the DTI, where members of the public could arrange to see them. In the same statement, the President of the Board of Trade announced that copies of these responses would henceforth also be available on request from the Department's Export Control Organisation.
We have since been considering the responses carefully as part of the DTI-led review of strategic export controls and expect to set out our proposals during the current parliamentary session.
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§ Ann ClwydTo ask the President of the Board of Trade if she will provide details of the export licences(a) granted since 1988 and (b) pending for the export of tear gas and plastic baton rounds to Kenya. [20054]
§ Mrs. RocheThese goods, and others, are controlled under different entries in Part 1 of Schedule III to the Export of Goods (Control) Order which are known as the ratings for these goods: tear gas under entry ML7; and plastic baton rounds under entries ML3 or PL5018.
The Export Control Organisation's computer databases have been interrogated, and the following results were obtained.
As of 9 December 1997, 61 standard individual export licences are recorded as having been issued since 1 January 1991 for the export to Kenya of goods with these ratings. Since 1 January 1994, no Open Individual Export Licences (OIELs) have been issued for the export to Kenya of such goods.
Number of standard individual export licences covering the export to Kenya of goods with this rating Rating Number ML7 0 ML3 49 PL5018 12 However, this information should be considered in light of the answer I gave to my hon. Friend the Member for Don Valley (Caroline Flint), on 30 October 1997, Official Report, columns 870–71.
It would entail disproportionate cost to determine which, if any, of the licences on which data are set out in the table covered the specified goods. Similarly, information on any standard individual export licences and/or OIELs for the export to Kenya of the specified goods that may have been issued before these dates could be provided only at disproportionate cost.
In addition, goods with the relevant ratings may have been exported to Kenya under the following Open General Export licences: OGEL (export after repair: military goods) and OGEL (export after exhibition: military goods), both of which were first issued on 1 March 1994.
As of 21 November 1997, two applications for standard individual export licences for the export of Kenya of goods with one or more of the relevant ratings were awaiting a decision and none for Open Individual Export Licences with this coverage.
§ Ann ClwydTo ask the President of the Board of Trade if she will provide details of export licences granted to Sound Day Corporation for the export of anti-riot equipment, tear gas canisters and plastic baton rounds to Kenya since 1988. [20055]
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§ Mrs. RocheThe Export Control Organisation's computer databases have been interrogated, and the following results were obtained.
As of 12 December 1997, no standard individual export licences are recorded as having been issued to Sound Day Corporation since 1 January 1991; and no Open Individual Export Licences (OIELs) have been issued to this company since 1 January 1994.
However, this information should be considered in light of the answer I gave to my hon. Friend the Member for Don Valley (Caroline Flint), 30 October 1997, Official Report, columns 870–71.
Information on any standard individual export licences and/or OIELs that may have been issued to this company before these dates could be provided only at disproportionate cost.