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Export Controls: Ukraine

Asked by Neil CoyleLabourDepartment for Business and TradeTabled Answered 4 September 2025UIN 69853

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps his Department is taking to improve the processing of export licensing to Ukraine to aid the war effort.

Answered by Mr Douglas Alexander

All export licence applications to Ukraine are treated with the highest priority by the Export Control Joint Unit (ECJU). As with all export licence applications, assessments are made on a case-by-case basis according to the Strategic Export Licensing Criteria. Assessments for Ukraine, given the situation within the country and the nature of the goods often being exported, mean these cases are some of the most complex for ECJU to process.

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