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1192819

	registered interest
	date	04/05/2020
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Customs Intermediaries: Training
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 29 April 2020 to Question 39478 on Revenue and Customs: Staff, what plans his Department has to increase the grant funding available for customs agent training as a result of the covid-19 pandemic.
	tabling member constituency	Arfon
	tabling member printed	Hywel Williams
	uin	42916
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/05/2020 answer text A full range of business support measures has been made available to UK businesses affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.<p>Separately, the Government has made available £34m of funding to support the expansion of the customs intermediaries sector, including the development of an online customs academy to deliver training to the sector. The Government continues to work closely with industry to consider if further support is needed.</p><p> </p><p>The UK has a well-established industry of customs intermediaries which serve British businesses trading outside the EU. The sector is varied and consists of a number of different business models, including specific customs agents, freight forwarders and fast parcel operators; all of which will require differing numbers of staff. Government support of £34m has been designed to meet the needs of the sector to build capacity, covering training and IT innovation, as well as recruitment. The further expansion of the sector will require the recruitment and training of talented individuals from all backgrounds.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman grouped question UIN 42917 42918 42919 question first answered 11/05/2020 15:40:54 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
	tabling member	1397 label Biography information for Hywel Williams

1192824

	registered interest
	date	04/05/2020
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Customs Intermediaries: Recruitment
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 29 April 2020 to Question 39478 on Revenue and Customs: Staff, how many of the 50,000 customs agents target have been recruited as at May 2020.
	tabling member constituency	Arfon
	tabling member printed	Hywel Williams
	uin	42917
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/05/2020 answer text A full range of business support measures has been made available to UK businesses affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.<p>Separately, the Government has made available £34m of funding to support the expansion of the customs intermediaries sector, including the development of an online customs academy to deliver training to the sector. The Government continues to work closely with industry to consider if further support is needed.</p><p> </p><p>The UK has a well-established industry of customs intermediaries which serve British businesses trading outside the EU. The sector is varied and consists of a number of different business models, including specific customs agents, freight forwarders and fast parcel operators; all of which will require differing numbers of staff. Government support of £34m has been designed to meet the needs of the sector to build capacity, covering training and IT innovation, as well as recruitment. The further expansion of the sector will require the recruitment and training of talented individuals from all backgrounds.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman grouped question UIN 42916 42918 42919 question first answered 11/05/2020 15:40:54 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
	tabling member	1397 label Biography information for Hywel Williams

1192830

	registered interest
	date	04/05/2020
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Customs Intermediaries: Recruitment
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 29 April 2020 to Question 39478 on Revenue and Customs: Staff, how many additional customs agents the Government plans to have (a) recruited and (b) retrained by December 2020.
	tabling member constituency	Arfon
	tabling member printed	Hywel Williams
	uin	42919
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/05/2020 answer text A full range of business support measures has been made available to UK businesses affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.<p>Separately, the Government has made available £34m of funding to support the expansion of the customs intermediaries sector, including the development of an online customs academy to deliver training to the sector. The Government continues to work closely with industry to consider if further support is needed.</p><p> </p><p>The UK has a well-established industry of customs intermediaries which serve British businesses trading outside the EU. The sector is varied and consists of a number of different business models, including specific customs agents, freight forwarders and fast parcel operators; all of which will require differing numbers of staff. Government support of £34m has been designed to meet the needs of the sector to build capacity, covering training and IT innovation, as well as recruitment. The further expansion of the sector will require the recruitment and training of talented individuals from all backgrounds.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman grouped question UIN 42916 42917 42918 question first answered 11/05/2020 15:40:54 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
	tabling member	1397 label Biography information for Hywel Williams