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Defence Equipment (Export Licences)

Volume 299: debated on Thursday 31 July 1997

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To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs how many export licences for defence equipment were issued between 1 May and 22 July. [10651]

From 1 May up to and including 22 July 1997, 1,701 export licences were issued for the export of military, security and paramilitary goods and arms, ammunition and related material, controlled under part III of schedule 1 to the Export of Goods (Control) Order 1994; 1,673 were standard individual export licences, and 28 were open individual export licences.