Written Question·Department for Business and Trade·UIN 62939

Dual Use Goods and Technologies: Exports

Tabled: 26 June 2025
Answered: 2 July 2025
Named Day

Question

Liam Byrne

LabourBirmingham Hodge Hill and Solihull North

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, with reference to the Prime Minister’s written ministerial statement of 3 June 2025 on Machinery of Government: Cyber-security and Defence Exports, HCWS679, if his Department will retain responsibility

Answer

Mr Douglas Alexander
There are currently no plans to change DBT’s responsibility for policy on the export of dual-use items.