To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, pursuant to his answer of 12 March 1999, Official Report, column 406, if he will give details of the four licences granted for the export of military equipment to the Rwandan Government since 1 May 1997. [78980]

[holding answer 29 March 1999]: These licences covered communications equipment, as noted in the Government's Annual Report on Strategic Export Controls, published by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office on 25 March. Inquiries have been made under the Code of Practice on Access to Government Information, and I can accordingly disclose the following further details about these licences.