Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether the Customs Declaration Service will be fully operational by January 2019.
Full Customer Declaration Service (CDS) functionality is expected to be in place by the end of March 2019 and a carefully managed customer migration from the Customs Handling of Import and Export Freight (CHIEF) system to CDS will continue until all traders have been moved to the new service. HMRC is dual running CHIEF alongside CDS until migration is completed.