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Dual Use Goods and Technologies: Exports

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Question for Department for Business and Trade

UIN 62939, tabled on 26 June 2025

Question

Liam Byrne
Labour
Birmingham Hodge Hill and Solihull North
Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, with reference to the Prime Minister’s written ministerial statement of 3 June 2025 on Machinery of Government: Cyber-security and Defence Exports, HCWS679, if his Department will retain responsibility for policy on the export of dual-use items.

Answer

Mr Douglas Alexander
Labour
Lothian East
Commons

Answered on

2 July 2025

There are currently no plans to change DBT’s responsibility for policy on the export of dual-use items.

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Department for Business and Trade
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