Question follow-through · 94145
Customs: EU Countries
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of proposed changes to EU customs arrangements on UK businesses.
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 25 Nov 2025
- Target answer date
- 1 Dec 2025
- Answer
- 1 Dec 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
25 Nov 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of proposed changes to EU customs arrangements on UK businesses.
1 Dec 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
1 Dec 2025
Answer published
On 17 May 2023, the European Commission proposed a revision of the Union Customs Code. The proposal is still subject to EU internal procedures; therefore, we cannot comment on the final proposal. However, we are following these suggested reforms closely, ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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