Ranil Jayawardena corrected a written answer on Export Controls

10 December 2020 · Commons written answer · Department for International Trade

Joanna Cherry (Scottish National Party, Edinburgh South West) asked written question 125256 on 4 December 2020. Mr Ranil Jayawardena answered on 9 December 2020 for the Department for International Trade, and Mr Ranil Jayawardena corrected the answer on 10 December 2020. The correction replaced 1 figure (124773) with 10 figures (1018, 424, 431, 488, 549, 573). Altogether 160 words differ between the two versions.

The question

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.

Original and corrected answer

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~~I refer~~ the ~~Hon. Lady~~ to ~~the answer I gave on 8 th December 2020 to Question (UIN: 124773).~~ \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \|	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 13 th October 2020, covering the period 1 st April – 30 th 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

Original

Corrected

~~I refer~~ the ~~Hon. Lady~~ to ~~the answer I gave on 8 th December 2020 to Question (UIN: 124773).~~
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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 13 th October 2020, covering the period 1 st April – 30 th 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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