HC Deb 12 May 2003 vol 405 cc17-8W
Mr. Menzies Campbell

To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what licences were granted for equipment on the military and dual lists to(a) Congo, (b) Benin, (c) Burkina Faso, (d) Burundi, (e) Cameroon, (f) Chad, (g) Comoros, (h) Central African Republic, (i) Cote dIvoire, (j) Ethiopia, (k) Gambia, (l) Ghana, (m) Guinea, (n) Kenya, (o) Madagascar, (p) Malawi, (q) Mali, (r) Mauritania, (s) Mozambique, (t) Niger, (u) Rwanda, (v) Senegal, (w) Tanzania, (x) Uganda, (y) Zambia, (z) Bolivia, (aa) Honduras, (bb) Nicaragua, (cc) Yemen, (dd) Laos, (ee) Myanmar and (ff) Vietnam, in each month since January 2002; what the military and dual use ratings were; and if she will make a statement. [112296]

Nigel Griffiths

The details of all export licences granted are published by destination in the Governments Annual Reports on Strategic Export Controls, copies of which are available from the Libraries of the House.

Mr. Menzies Campbell

To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what mechanisms are in place for independent assessment of the Governments exemptions to its export control policy. [112326]

Nigel Griffiths

I refer the right hon. and learned Member to my reply to the hon. Member for Hereford (Mr. Keetch) on 1 May 2003,Official Report, column 455W.

Mr. Gardiner

To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry pursuant to her evidence before the Quadripartite Committee on 3 April, what assessment she has made of the problems with the end-use monitoring of arms licences in the United States of America, other than with enforcement; and if she will make a statement on the reasons underlying her assessment that the end-use monitoring of arms licences in the US is less effective than that proposed for the UK. [112380]

Nigel Griffiths

My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry gave no assessment of the effectiveness of end-use monitoring of arms licences in the US in her evidence before the Quadripartite Committee on 3 April 2003.