To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether European Commission officials have on any occasion launched investigations inside Israel to determine whether Israeli importers are correctly applying the 2005 technical arrangement of the EU-Israel Association Agreement with regard to goods being charged at the correct duty. (229916)

HM Revenue and Customs are not aware of any investigations having been instigated by the European Commission.

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many requests for information have been raised with the Israeli customs authorities to establish whether consignments have been imported from Israel or Israeli settlements under the 2005 technical arrangement of the EU-Israel Association Agreement in each of the last three years. (229931)

The number of requests for information HM Revenue and Customs have raised with the Israeli authorities is as follows:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many requests for information to the Israeli customs authorities under the 2005 technical arrangement regarding the origin of consignments from Israel or Israeli settlements had not been answered within 10 months, in each of the last three years. (229932)

The number of HM Revenue and Customs requests for information which have not been answered within 10 months is as follows:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many requests for information regarding consignments believed to have originated from Israeli settlements have been answered by Israeli customs authorities in each of the last three years; and how many such consignments the Israeli government determined had originated from settlements. (229933)

HM Revenue and Customs advise as follows:

1 February 2005 to 31 January 2006—five requests answered (four consignments confirmed as having originated in a Settlement)

1 February 2006 to 31 January 2007—six requests answered (two consignments confirmed as having originated in a Settlement)

1 February 2007 to 31 January 2008—two requests answered (neither consignment originated in a Settlement)

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what steps he is taking to ensure Israeli customs authorities respond to all requests from HM Revenue and Customs made under the 2005 technical arrangement. (229934)

The Israeli customs authorities are bound by the requirements of Article 33 of Protocol 4 to the EC—Israel Trade Association Agreement to reply to verification requests within 10 months. HM Revenue and Customs pursues responses to outstanding requests via correspondence with the Israeli authorities.

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he has issued any fines to companies for falsely declaring goods are from Israel when they have originated from illegal Israeli settlements under the 2005 technical arrangement. (229935)

No fines have been issued.

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether the Israeli customs authorities have provided HM Revenue and Customs with a list of postcodes for Israeli settlements and the corresponding names and addresses of each settlement. (229936)

A list of postcodes and names of settlements was supplied to the European Commission by the Israeli customs authorities. This list was subsequently passed to all member states.

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will put in place procedures to record the import of products from illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territory separately from those relating to Israel. (229937)

HM Revenue and Customs already keep records of any imports that are from Israeli Settlements and identified as incorrectly claiming Israeli preferential origin.