Asked by: Shockat Adam (Independent - Leicester South)
Question to the Department for Business and Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps his Department is taking through the High Streets Strategy to support post offices as community hubs.
Answered by Blair McDougall - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade)
This year MHCLG will bring forward a new High Streets Strategy; we are working closely with businesses and representative bodies to inform this, including Post Office Ltd.
We recognise the vital role post offices play as community and economic hubs on high streets across the country. The Green Paper published last year outlining the Government’s vision for the Post Office, included an objective for the Post Office network to support high streets.
Post Office Ltd has an ambition to expand access to face-to-face in-person advisory services available on the high street through the Post Office network. The forthcoming Post Office pilots, due to launch this summer, represent an important first step in testing and expanding that advisory offer.
Asked by: Shockat Adam (Independent - Leicester South)
Question to the Department for Business and Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether his Department can exempt from arms export licensing products with a direct military application; and whether any such exemptions have been granted since 2022.
Answered by Douglas Alexander - Secretary of State for Scotland
The requirement for an export licence for military goods is set out in the Export Control Order 2008. Export licence applications for all controlled goods are rigorously assessed on a case-by-case basis against strict assessment criteria, the Strategic Export Licensing Criteria.
Where licence applications include items that are not covered by the 2008 Order, exporters can be informed that no licence is required.