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Trader Support Service: Expenditure

Asked by Carla LockhartDemocratic Unionist PartyTreasuryTabled Answered 10 July 2025UIN 64548

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To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the total cost to the public purse is for the Trader Support Service since 11 June 2020, broken down by financial year.

Answered by James Murray

The costs of the Trader Support Service by financial year are set out below. Financial YearCosts2020/21£100.62m2021/22£148.80m2022/23£114.68m2023/24£105.19m2024/25£88.15m

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