Export Controls: China

(asked on 6th December 2023) - View Source

Question to the Department for Business and Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, pursuant to the Answer of 28 November 2023 to Question 2516 on Foreign Investment in UK and Overseas Trade: China, how many export control licences for (a) products and (b) services destined for China were refused in each of the last five years.


Answered by
Nusrat Ghani Portrait
Nusrat Ghani
Minister of State (Minister for Europe)
This question was answered on 11th December 2023

HM Government does not publish data based on products or services, but individual refusals and the items that may have been refused under each one can be reviewed at https://www.gov.uk/guidance/strategic-export-controls-licensing-data via the Annual Reports, or via the Strategic Export Controls: Reports and Statistics website at https://www.exportcontroldb.trade.gov.uk/sdb2/fox/sdb/.

The following number of export licences with China listed as the end user destination were refused in each of the last five years:

Description of refused goods

2018

2019

2020

2021

2022

Goods rated for Military use only

2

2

3

1

13

Goods rated for non-Military use only

71

67

89

112

238

Total

73

69

92

113

251

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