Customs Intermediaries: Regulation

(asked on 25th April 2022) - View Source

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether the Government plans to take steps to regulate customs intermediaries.


Answered by
Lucy Frazer Portrait
Lucy Frazer
Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport
This question was answered on 28th April 2022

The customs intermediary sector has significantly increased their capacity to meet demand following the introduction of full customs controls from 1 January 2022. It is a government priority to ensure that there is sufficient capacity in the customs intermediary market to support UK traders.

Following the recent period of significant change to and scaling of the customs intermediary sector, we want to understand how the sector is performing and ensure that all traders, including Small and Medium-Sized enterprises, are able to access a customs intermediary at an affordable cost and that the service they receive is of high quality. To gather insight from industry, HMRC and HM Treasury have recently published a call for evidence which includes a section on the customs intermediary sector. The call for evidence opened on Monday 7 February 2022 and closes on Monday 2 May 2022.

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