Source · Select Committees · Public Accounts Committee
Recommendation 25
25
In December 2020, the government published its 2025 UK Border Strategy, which set out the...
Conclusion
In December 2020, the government published its 2025 UK Border Strategy, which set out the government’s vision to have the “world’s most effective border” by 2025.77 This set out how the government would improve coordination between government departments and agencies at the border; reduce duplicative asks for data; and make greater use of modern, digital and simple processes.78 The October 2021 Spending Review provided £838 million over the three years to 2024–25 to complete the delivery of critical customs IT, including the new Customs Declaration Service. It also allocated £180 million to build a Single Trade Window which will reduce the cost of trade by streamlining trader interactions with border agencies.79 HMRC told us that this Single Trade Window will make things easier for small businesses by ensuring that traders will only have to make one submission of information to get all the relevant clearances from different departments.80
Government Response
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HM Government
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2.3 The government set out in its 2025 UK Border Strategy six key transformations - all designed to contribute to a reduction in costs and administrative burdens for all border users. The greatest impact on administrative burden will come from enhancing the government's collection, assurance and use of border data, enabling upstream compliance to move processes away from the frontier, and making border documentation digital by default.