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Dual Use Goods and Technologies: Exports

Asked by Liam ByrneLabourDepartment for Business and TradeTabled Answered 2 July 2025UIN 62939

The question

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

Answered by Mr Douglas Alexander

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

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