HC Deb 01 July 2002 vol 388 c140W
Gregory Barker

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development which licence applications her Department has examined for arms exports to(a) Pakistan and (b) India since January 2000; and how many her Department (i) supported and (ii) opposed. [65450]

Clare Short

Along with the Foreign Office and the Ministry of Defence my Department provides advice to the Department of Trade and Industry on relevant export licence applications.

The advice given to the Department of Trade and Industry is exempt from disclosure under Part II, Section 2 of the Code of Practice on Access to Government Information, as information whose disclosure would harm the frankness and candour of internal discussion.