Question to the Department for International Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what steps her Department is taking to ensure social distancing during compliance visits to monitor (a) Open Individual Export Licences and (b) Open General Export Licences during the covid-19 outbreak.

The Department continues to undertake compliance checks. Due to coronavirus, physical site inspections have ceased temporarily and remote inspections are being completed instead.

We currently have eight staff who are employed to undertake such checks and there has been no redeployment of these staff to other functions.