Export Controls

(asked on 4th December 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department for International Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what estimate she has made of the longest number of days her Department has taken to make an export licence decision from the date of the initial request to the date of the first decision being communicated to the applicant in each quarter of (a) 2018, (b) 2019 and (c) 2020.


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Ranil Jayawardena
This question was answered on 9th December 2020

HM Government publishes Official Statistics on export licences granted, refused and revoked to all destinations on GOV.UK, on a quarterly and annual basis. These reports contain detailed information including the overall value, type (e.g. Military, Other) and a summary of the items covered by these licences.

This information is available at: www.gov.uk/government/collections/strategic-export-controls-licensing-data. The most recent publication was on 13th October 2020, covering the period 1st April – 30th June 2020.

Internal records held indicate, in each quarter between Q1 2018 and Q2 2020, the longest an application has taken to process a Standard Individual Export Licence (SIEL) by HM Government, is as follows:

Period

Longest an application has taken, in working days

Q1 2018

901

Q2 2018

887

Q3 2018

1018

Q4 2018

424

Q1 2019

576

Q2 2019

730

Q3 2019

431

Q4 2019

573

Q1 2020

488

Q2 2020

549

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