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.
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 |