Question to the Department for International Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, how many staff in her Department are employed to undertake carry out compliance visits in relation to (a) Open Individual Export Licences and (b) Open General Export Licences.

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.