Public Bill Committees
Export Control Bill

• Export Control Bill, 1st sitting (21 speeches)
  [Mr. Joe Benton in the Chair]
  • Clause 1 - Export controls (36 speeches)
    I beg to move amendment No. 33, in page 1, line 2, leave out `may' and insert `shall'. In keeping with my comment that I do not want to delay the Committee, I shall be remarkably brief. Hon....
  • Clause 3 - Purposes of orders under section 1(1) or 2(1) (22 speeches)
    I beg to move amendment No. 11, in page 2, line 33, leave out subsection (2). The amendment takes us to the heart of the argument about democratic control and accountability of the export...
• Export Control Bill, 2nd sitting (0 speeches)
  [Mr. Joe Benton in the Chair]
  • Schedule - Purposes for making orders under section 1(1) or 2(1) (38 speeches)
    I beg to move amendment No. 42, in page 9, line 36, after `effect', insert ``damaging to the interests or security of the United Kingdom''. I am speaking to my amendment a little earlier than I...
• Export Control Bill, 3rd sitting (0 speeches)
  [Mr. Joe Benton in the Chair]
  • Clause 8 - Guidance (32 speeches)
    I beg to move amendment No. 20, in page 5, line 31, leave out `falling to be'. This is the first of a series of amendments to clause 8 that relate to the procedures governing the guidance. The...
  • Clause 9 - Annual reports (37 speeches)
    I beg to move amendment No. 5, in page 6, line 2, leave out ``as soon as practicable after the end of 2002'' and insert ``within seven months after the end of 2001''. The amendment is one of...
• Export Control, 4th sitting (3 speeches)
  [Mr. Joe Benton in the Chair]
  • Clause 2 - Purposes of orders under section 1(1) or 2(1) (19 speeches)
    I beg to move amendment No. 48, in page 2, line 21, after second `transfer', insert `other than within a company or group'. Under the current legislation, only the physical export of defence...
  • Clause 4 - Controls on provision of technical assistance overseas (20 speeches)
    I beg to move amendment No. 51, in page 3, line 29, after `assistance', insert `or foreign military assistance'.
  • Clause 5 - Controls on trade in controlled goods (41 speeches)
    I beg to move amendment No. 56, in page 4, line 7, after `disposal;' insert— `( ) their movement;'.
• Export Control Bill, 5th sitting (0 speeches)
  [Mr. Joe Benton in the Chair]
  • Clause 6 - Power to require information (8 speeches)
    Question proposed, That the clause stand part of the Bill.
  • Clause 7 - Control powers: supplementary (18 speeches)
    I beg to move amendment No. 68, in line 6, at end insert— `( ) for the revocation of any licence granted under the control powers in subsection (1)(a) for the export of goods, the transfer...
• Export Control Bill, 6th sitting (0 speeches)
  [Mr. Joe Benton in the Chair]
  • Clause 10 - Interpretation (3 speeches)
    I beg to move amendment No. 50, in page 6, line 30, leave out subsection (5). When I read the excellent explanatory notes prepared by the Department of Trade and Industry and the Department for...
  • Clause 12 - Orders (16 speeches)
    I beg to move amendment No. 7, in page 7, line 6, leave out— `an order under section 1 or 2 which contains any provision made by virtue of section 3(2)' and insert— `(a) an order...
  • Clause 15 - Short title, etc (5 speeches)
    I beg to move amendment No. 26, in page 8, line 22, after `overseas territory', insert `no more than 40 days after this Act is granted Royal Assent'. Several of the amendments proposed concern...
  • New Clause 1 - End-use monitoring (14 speeches)
    `(1) The Secretary of State shall by order require that, for any activities in relation to which controls are capable of being imposed by an order under section 1, 2, 4 or 5, provision shall be...
  • New Clause 2 - Licensed production overseas (13 speeches)
    `(1) The Secretary of State may by order make provision for or in connection with the imposition of controls regulating the licensed production of controlled goods overseas. (2) In this section...