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Question follow-through · 117035

Arms Trade: Israel

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how many export licences covering military training equipment to Israel were extant between 1 January 2025 and 31 September 2025.

answeredDepartment for Business and Trade

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Answering body
Department for Business and Trade
Tabled
2 Mar 2026
Target answer date
9 Mar 2026
Answer
9 Mar 2026 · 7 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 2 Mar 2026

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how many export licences covering military training equipment to Israel were extant between 1 January 2025 and 31 September 2025.

  2. 9 Mar 2026

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 9 Mar 2026

    Answer published

    The Department does not hold continuous records on the number of export licences extant at any point over historic periods, but publishes data regularly based on decisions taken and has, on an exceptional basis, periodically published further detail on li...

Open official record

Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

Later records

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27 Apr 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, with reference to Question UIN 117035, how many of the five licences referenced are for IDF training; and what equipment is covered by those licences.

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14 May 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, with reference to the Answer of 9 March 2026 to Question 117035 on Arms Trade: Israel, how many of the five licences referenced are for IDF training; and what equipment is covered by those licences.

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14 Jul 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether his Department has designated a team responsible for agri-tech as a frontier industry under the Industrial Strategy.