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Written Question
EU Budget: Audit
Tuesday 17th July 2018

Asked by: Lord Morris of Aberavon (Labour - Life peer)

Question to the Department for Exiting the European Union :

To ask Her Majesty's Government whether the historic failure of auditors to fully certify the accounts of the EU has been raised in recent negotiations.

Answered by Lord Callanan - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)

As we have said previously, we are not going to provide a running commentary on every twist and turn of ongoing negotiations.

Recent negotiations have been building on the significant agreement reached in March. We’re continuing to make good progress and have reached agreement across the vast majority of the draft Withdrawal Agreement.

We are now focussed on negotiating the right future relationship and have been having regular discussions with the EU outlining our positions on a wide range of topics covering the future security partnership and the future economic partnership.