Question follow-through · 52342
UK Internal Trade: Northern Ireland
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the service standard level time is for businesses to receive a UK Internal Market Scheme number.
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 14 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 16 May 2025
- Answer
- 21 May 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
14 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the service standard level time is for businesses to receive a UK Internal Market Scheme number.
16 May 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
21 May 2025
Answer published
The UK Internal Market Scheme (UKIMS) was launched in June 2023, allowing businesses across the United Kingdom to apply, and HMRC has successfully encouraged over 10,000 traders to get authorised.HMRC is required to take a decision regarding the outcome o...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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