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Export Controls

Asked by Charlie DewhirstConservativeDepartment for Business and TradeTabled Answered 10 October 2024UIN 6996

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how many export licences were approved in (a) August 2024 and (b) each of the preceding 12 months.

Answered by Mr Douglas Alexander

Official Statistics for 2024 have not yet been published. Information covering January to July 2024 are planned to be released by November 2024.

The UK operates one of the most transparent export licensing systems in the world. We publish quarterly and annual statistics on all our export licensing decisions. These can be accessed here: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/strategic-export-controls-licensing-data

We do not publish monthly licensing statistics, but we have published quarterly statistics for 2023:

Reporting period

Number issued

2023

11,746

2023Q1

2,853

2023Q2

2,987

2023Q3

2,967

2023Q4

2,939

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