HC Deb 29 October 2003 vol 412 c260W
Mr. Tynan

To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry in how many cases where a defence export licence was revoked in(a) 2000, (b) 2001 and (c) 2002 a defence export licence was subsequently granted to allow the export of the same items to an alternate destination. [134600]

Nigel Griffiths

This information is not readily available and would require both a computer and manual search of all records for the three years in question to determine whether there are identical matches and could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.