Written question asked by Neil Shastri-Hurst (Conservative) on Friday, 2 May 2025, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Wednesday, 7 May 2025. It was answered by Douglas Alexander (Labour) on Tuesday, 13 May 2025 on behalf of the Department for Business and Trade.

Standard Individual Export Licences: Ukraine

Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of the time taken to provide advice on Standard Individual Export Licence applications for dual-use goods to Ukraine on (a) UK defence technology exports and (b) Ukraine's non-military resilience; and what steps he is taking to ensure that those applications are processed in a timely manner.

Answer: All export licence applications to Ukraine are treated with the highest priority by the Export Control Joint Unit (ECJU). As with all export licence applications, assessments are made on a case-by-case basis according to the Strategic Export Licensing Criteria. Assessments for Ukraine, given the situation within the country and the nature of the goods often being exported, mean these cases are some of the most complex for ECJU to process. In the most recent period covered by our official statistics in development i.e. July to September 2024, we processed 79% of SIELs for Ukraine within 20 working days, exceeding our public target of 70%.

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