PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Export Controls: USA (18 June 2020)

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, how many export licences were granted for export to (a) the Minneapolis Police Department, (b) the New York Police Department, (c) the Los Angeles Police Department and (d) other US law enforcement agencies in each of the last five years.

Asked by:
Ed Davey (Liberal Democrat)

Our records show that no export licences were granted for export to the Minneapolis Police Department nor the Los Angeles Police Department. One Standard Individual Export Licence was granted for export to the New York Police Department in 2016.

The number of export licences that may have been granted to all other law enforcement agencies in the United States of America over the last five years can only be provided at disproportionate cost, due to the way in which licences are worded and information is held, which makes it generally possible to find the information only where a named end user is specified.

For completeness, it is important to note that – for some licences – the exports are to stockists, who then supply end users within that country. On others, specific end users are not listed, but they might instead have conditions that restrict exports to the armed forces and the police, for example.

Answered by:
Mr Ranil Jayawardena (Conservative)
26 June 2020