Business, Innovation and Skills written question – answered at on 12 October 2011.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills pursuant to his written ministerial statement of 18 July 2011, Official Report, columns 78-79WS, on export control policy (review), what offensive naval, air and land-based military platforms have been supplied from the UK to (a) Bahrain, (b) Egypt, (c) Libya, (d) Syria, (e) Tunisia and (f) Yemen; and in which years.
The earliest we have been able to search our electronic records is 1999 for standard individual export licences (SIELs) and 2001 for open individual export licences (OIELs).
Our records indicate two standard individual export licences have been issued for the supply of armoured personnel carriers to Libya:
1. Issued in February 2007 for the supply of up to two armoured personnel carriers.
2. Issued in September 2008 for the supply of up to ten armoured personnel carriers.
We cannot verify whether these items were actually exported.
No licences were identified for Bahrain, Egypt, Syria, Tunisia and Yemen.
All applications, including those for export to Libya, are carefully assessed against the Consolidated EU and National Arms Export Licensing Criteria taking into account the prevailing circumstances at the time of application.
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