Asked by: Baroness Brown of Silvertown (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Exiting the European Union :
To ask the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, what progress has been made on negotiations for the inclusion of the UK as a separate contracting party to the Common Transit Convention.
Answered by Robin Walker
The Customs Future Partnership Paper published in August 2017 sets out our objectives for a future customs relationship with the EU, and the two approaches that most closely meet these objectives. The paper indicated UK membership of the CTC could form part of our potential future relationship with the EU.
Having moved beyond the first phase of the negotiations, the Government looks forward to negotiating the UK's future customs relationship with the European Union.
Asked by: Baroness Brown of Silvertown (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Exiting the European Union :
To ask the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, with reference to his Department's publication, Enforcement and dispute resolution-a future partnership paper, what his Department's definition is of direct jurisdiction.
Answered by Robin Walker
The Prime Minister has been clear that we will bring about the end of the direct jurisdiction of the CJEU in the UK. After withdrawal, the UK will take back control of its laws. The Repeal Bill will end the supremacy of EU law. Our domestic law will once again be supreme. After we leave the EU, Parliament or, where appropriate, the devolved legislatures, will be free to change the law where they decide it is right to do so.
Asked by: Baroness Brown of Silvertown (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Exiting the European Union :
To ask the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, with reference to his Department's publication Enforcement and dispute resolution - a future partnership paper, Executive Summary, paragraph 4, page 2, published in August 2017, what his definition of direct jurisdiction is.
Answered by Robin Walker
The Prime Minister has been clear that we will bring about the end of the direct jurisdiction of the CJEU in the UK. After withdrawal, the UK will take back control of its laws. The Repeal Bill will end the supremacy of EU law. Our domestic law will once again be supreme. After we leave the EU, Parliament or, where appropriate, the devolved legislatures, will be free to change the law where they decide it is right to do so.
Asked by: Baroness Brown of Silvertown (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Exiting the European Union :
To ask the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, what recent meetings he has had with the secretariat of the European Free Trade Association.
Answered by Robin Walker
The Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union has not met with the Secretariat of the European Free Trade Association. He met with the President of the EFTA Court in October 2016.