Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what progress he has made on implementation of the Goods Vehicle Movement Service.

The GVMS Check-in and Embarkation functionality was deployed successfully on 31 December 2020 at 18:00 (GMT) and is working as expected. This was following deployment of the GVMS Registration Service on 8 December 2020, and the “Get a Goods Movement Reference” (GMR) Service on 23 December 2020.

Further GVMS releases will be deployed over a series of dates up to full border controls in January 2022 and remain on track. This has included functionality supporting NI-GB Exports which was successfully deployed on 28 February 2021 and enhancements to improve customer journeys, such as driver messaging which took place on 4 July 2021.

To date there have been 6,655 successful GVMS haulier registrations and 431,417 GMRs created (data obtained 1 July 2021).

Port, carrier and haulier engagement is continuing to support the take up of GVMS, and HMRC are working with them to support their readiness for January 2022.

HMRC will continue to work with all industry actors to ensure they understand the steps they need to take to move goods through border locations using the different customs models.