§ Dr. CableTo ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if he will list, for each year from 1997 to 1999,(a) those countries in receipt of defence-related contracts covered by the ECGD, (b) the United Kingdom companies involved in each of these contracts, (c) the goods covered by each contract and (d) the financial value of each contract. [108765]
§ Mr. Caborn[holding answer 7 February 2000]: The second table contains details by country and value of the cover which ECGD has provided in support of defence business in each of the last three years.
The types of goods covered, broken down by category of equipment, are included in ECGD's Annual Report and repeated in the table:
Percentage April 1997-March 1988 April 1998-March 1999 April 1999-January 2000 (provisional) Aircraft 31.0 60.0 27.5 Ancillary 1.3 2.0 0 Artillery/Missiles 16.4 1.0 42.0 Naval vessels 0.3 35.0 0 Radar/Communications 15.0 1.0 10.9 Vehicles 36.0 1.0 19.6 The further detail the hon. Gentleman requires is a commercial confidence.
Value of ECGD guarantees issued in support of defence-related contracts 1997–98 to 1999–2000 £ million 1997–98 1998–99 1999–20001 Botswana 12 — — Brazil — 29 — Brunei — 580 — Chile — — 2 Egypt 9 — — Germany 1 — — Greece 19 — 5 India — 14 — Indonesia 17 9 — Italy — 2 — Korea, Rep. of 62 20 — Kuwait 56 — 30 Lithuania 3 — — Malaysia — 15 123 Oman 1 21 204 Qatar 183 — — Saudi Arabia 225 1,000 — Singapore 19 — — Sweden — 4 — Thailand 27 — — Turkey 36 — 208 UAE 10 — — United States — 7 — 1 to 31 January