Accounting Officer assessment summary: Single Trade Window Programme
A summary of the main points from the HMRC Accounting Officer's assessment of this major government programme.
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In December 2022, HMRC’s Accounting Officer undertook an assessment of the Single Trade Window Programme. This is an updated summary assessment.
A UK Single Trade Window (STW) is a single digital gateway at the UK border for traders to complete their import, export and transit obligations. The STW will save traders time and money by reducing the significant duplicative effort that is currently required to move goods across the UK border, and reduce barriers to entry to international trade by simplifying the customer experience. It will also enhance delivery of government services and compliance activity at the border, by improving the quality and accessibility of information that departments use to make decisions about where, and how, they intervene.
In January 2022, the STW programme moved from Cabinet Office to HMRC. Accounting Officer responsibility rests within HMRC, but STW is very much a cross-government delivery, with HMRC working with partner organisations across government to realise the ambition set out in the Border Strategy.
When the first assessment was produced in December 2022, the programme was approved to launch a procurement for a technical delivery partner (TDP) and it was planned to undertake another assessment when the results of that procurement were known, the business case had been updated, and delivery risks re-assessed.
The Accounting Officer’s updated assessment concluded that the programme is value for money and deliverable.
You can read the previous version of this assessment summary, published in January 2023, on The National Archives website.
Last updated 7 June 2023 + show all updates
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Published fully updated summary assessment and archived the previous version.
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First published.