Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the volume of declarations that will be made using the Customs Declaration Service between Great Britain and Northern Ireland in the calendar month of January 2021.

HMRC are committed to having systems in place to deliver the NI Protocol and facilitate the flow of trade between Great Britain and Northern Ireland. This will include ensuring that electronic declarations for both fiscal and regulatory purposes can be received and processed.

The Customs Declaration Service (CDS), the system for Northern Ireland, has been built to handle 60 million declarations per annum. This will be sufficient for movements between Great Britain and Northern Ireland.