Written Question·Department for Business and Trade·UIN 57527
Arms Trade: Exports
Tabled: 4 June 2025
Answered: 10 June 2025
Named DayQuestion
Lincoln Jopp
Conservative — Spelthorne
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what the average time was for an export license to be granted to a defence business from first application to approval in the latest period for which data is available.
Answer
Mr Douglas AlexanderDuring 2024, the median processing time in SPIRE for all completed Standard Individual Export Licence (SIEL) applications was 16 working days. On average, completed SIEL applications account for around 95% of all completed licence applications. We do not ...
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