Question to the Department for International Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, how many licence applications have been refused under Criterion 2c of the Consolidated EU and National Arms Export Licensing Criteria in each year since 2008; and what the destination country was of each of those applications so refused.

I refer the hon Member to the answer given by my hon Friend for Broxtowe (Anna Soubry), the then Minister of State for Small Business, Industry and Enterprise, to the hon Member for Leeds Central on 4 May, UIN 36102.

Since this answer was provided a further 10 Standard Individual Export Licence applications have been refused under Criterion 2.

Licences granted and refused are published as Official Statistics, on a quarterly basis, at www.gov.uk.