Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask Her Majesty's Government how many people are employed (1) directly, and (2) indirectly, by the Trader Support Service.

The Trader Support Service (TSS) contract was awarded to a consortium of Fujitsu, who was the majority member, McKinsey and Company, Customs Clearance Consortium, Institute for Export and International Trade, and Hinduja Global Solutions Limited. There are 759 staff employed across Fujitsu and other consortium members supporting TSS as of the week ending 17 December 2021.

Trader Support Service (TSS) has handled just under 1.4 million Supplementary Declarations since 1 January 2021, with approximately 44,000 traders registered to use the service.

Just over 16,800 of our traders are registered in Northern Ireland, with just over 11,500 of those traders actively using the service.