Committees on Arms ExportsLetter to the Chair of the Committees from Rt Hon William Hague MP, First Secretary of State and Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Thank you for your letter of 16 April about the type of equipment which is being exported to Yemen and Bahrain.

BIS have now finalised the data for the fourth quarter of 2011 and there is one amendment to the list enclosed with my letter of 28 February. An Open Licence for components for corrosion resistant chemical manufacturing equipment for export to Yemen was ultimately refused by the Government (not approved as stated in the earlier list). The preliminary data sent in February was based on information available to us at that time but checking revealed a subsequent status update to the licence in question. I enclose a suitably amended list of licences approved and refused for Bahrain and Yemen during 2011. I have no objection to the Committees publishing this information.

1 May 2012