Question to the Department for International Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, whether the suspension mechanism that applies to (a) extant and (b) pending licences is applicable to licences for Hong Kong.

Only the Open Individual Export Licence issued on 9 May 2016 remains extant, but it is not for crowd control equipment; it covers items such as body armour for bomb disposal and protection from bomb fragmentation.

The Foreign Secretary announced on 25 June that we will not issue any further export licences for crowd control equipment to Hong Kong unless we are satisfied that concerns raised about human rights and fundamental freedoms have been thoroughly addressed. There are no extant licences for crowd control equipment.