Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between David Duguid and Jeremy Lefroy

Monday 21st January 2019 Commons Chamber

[David Duguid (Banff and Buchan) (Con)]

4. What plans he has for the UK’s future immigration system.

[Jeremy Lefroy (Stafford) (Con)]

6. What plans he has for the UK’s future immigration system.

Fisheries Bill (First sitting)

Debate between David Duguid and Jeremy Lefroy

Committee Debate: 1st sitting: House of Commons
Tuesday 4th December 2018 Public Bill Committees

[David Duguid]

Q Going back to what you said earlier about how the majority of our exports go to the EU, do you have any data on how much we export to the EU that is just minimally processed and further exported to third countries?

Andrew Kuyk: I do not have an exact figure, but I imagine that a clear majority of that would have no or minimal processing.

[Jeremy Lefroy (Stafford) (Con)]

Q You mentioned earlier the import of cod from the Barents sea, Russia, which is obviously outside the EU and the European economic area. What sort of friction is there in bringing that into the UK market, in comparison with what might be experienced in the future.

Andrew Kuyk: Virtually none, in the sense that quite a lot of this stuff is transshipped through other countries, as I have already explained. If it comes in to us through the tunnel there is no friction at all, as it has already entered the single market, so any formalities—border inspection and any controls—have taken place elsewhere. The same is true of some fish that comes from Norway; some of that comes overland into Sweden on lorries. It is not quite just-in-time in the same sense as in the automotive industry, but there is a narrow window—something like 48 hours maximum—for getting those lorries through and into the UK market. At the moment, that is frictionless.