Musical Instruments: Certification
(asked on 4th February 2026) - View Source
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the average length of time taken to issue Musical Instrument Certificates to touring musicians was in each calendar year since 2021.
Answered by
Mary Creagh
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)
This question was answered on 10th February 2026
This data has been held since July 2023 when CITES licencing moved to a new licencing system (“Pegasus”). An annual breakdown is provided below:
Year | Number of MICs issued | Mean working days to issue | Median working days to issue |
2023 | 13 | 19.4 | 20 |
2024 | 27 | 37.2 | 21 |
2025 | 20 | 20.6 | 19 |
2026 | 4 | 25.5 | 20.5 |
The data above was extracted on 5 February 2026.