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Commons · Question 2220 · Tabled 18 May 2026 · Treasury · Official record

Answered 27 May 2026

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Asked by Ben Lake

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the answer of 29 April 2026 to question 129483, what (a) the declared trade value of goods imported under BIRDs declarations across all procedure codes and both CDS and CHIEF, (b) HMRC's estimate o

Answer

Answered by Dan Tomlinson, 27 May 2026

(a) The trade value and number of declarations from the Bulk Import Reduced Data Set (BIRDS) under the Customs Declaration Service and Low-Value Bulking of Imports (LVBI) under the legacy CHIEF system are in the following table:YearLVBI Trade value (£bn)L...