We welcome the decision to launch the ECJU Transformation Programme and the opportunity it provides to improve and reform the work of the ECJU and its relationships with stakeholders. However, given the duty of DIT to inform us of relevant developments, it is disappointing that the Department did not do so on this occasion. Instead, we learned of its existence from the MoD’s Defence and Security Industrial Strategy. We expect the Government to be more proactive in informing us of future polic...

We welcome the decision to launch the ECJU Transformation Programme and the opportunity it provides to improve and reform the work of the ECJU and its relationships with stakeholders. However, given the duty of DIT to inform us of relevant developments, it is disappointing that the Department did not do so on this occasion. Instead, we learned of its existence from the MoD’s Defence and Security Industrial Strategy. We expect the Government to be more proactive in informing us of future policy developments. Type: conclusion | Number: 8 | Paragraph: 38 | Response status: accepted Government response: The Transformation Programme is an internal business improvement programme. The aims of the programme, which were communicated to the Committee in a letter in May 2022, are to enable ECJU to offer a professional customer-focussed licence application service, which provides timely and accurate advice