HC Deb 24 March 1999 vol 328 c267W
Ann Clwyd

To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry (1) if he will list the export licences granted to Pains Wessex (Schermuly) for the export of(a) pyrotechnics, (b) tear gas, (c) plastic baton rounds and (d) anti-personnel fragmentation grenades or components for the above products since 1988 to Malaysia; [77242]

(2) if he will list the export licences granted to Pains Wessex (Schermuly) since 1988 for the export of (a) anti-personnel fragmentation grenades and (b) anti-ambush grenades to Indonesia; [77244]

(3) if he will list the open individual export licences granted to Pains Wessex (Schermuly) in each of the last 10 years. [77243]

Dr. Howells

The Export Control Organisation's computer databases have been interrogated and the following results were obtained. Between 1 January 1991 and 5 March 1999, no Standard Individual Export Licences, and between 1 January 1994 and 5 March 1999, no Open Individual Export Licences were issued to Schermuly Ltd.

This information should be considered in light of the answer given by my hon. Friend the Member for Hornsey and Wood Green (Mrs. Roche), the then Minister for Small Firms, Trade and Industry, to my hon. Friend the Member for Don Valley (Caroline Flint) on 30 October 1997, Official Report, columns 870–71

Ann Clwyd

To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if he will list the export licences granted to Pains Wessex for the export of(a) tear gas, (b) plastic baton rounds and (c) anti-personnel fragmentation grenades since 1988. [77241]

Dr. Howells

Inquiries are being made under the Code of Practice on Access to Government Information. Where confidential information is involved, the parties concerned may be asked if they consent to its disclosure, and this can take some time. I will write to my hon. Friend as soon as possible, and place a copy of that letter in the Library of the House.

Ann Clwyd

To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if he will list the licensed production agreements that Pains Wessex has established in other countries, indicating the products which these agreements cover. [77240]

Dr. Howells

I refer my hon. Friend to the reply I gave her on 22 March 1999,Official Report, column 117.