Leaving the EU: Sectoral Impact Assessments

Joanna Cherry Excerpts
Tuesday 28th November 2017

(6 years, 5 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Robin Walker Portrait Mr Walker
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I can confirm that that was the right hon. and learned Member for Holborn and St Pancras (Keir Starmer).

Joanna Cherry Portrait Joanna Cherry (Edinburgh South West) (SNP)
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The Minister has mentioned the devolved Administrations on a number of occasions. I am advised by Scottish Government colleagues that the documents they have received contain nothing substantial at all about Scotland. On 24 and 25 October, the Secretary of State for Scotland and the Secretary of State for Existing the European Union gave evidence—to the Scottish Affairs Committee and the Exiting the European Union Committee respectively—that assessments of Brexit’s impact on the Scottish economy existed and would be shared with the Scottish Government. Will the Minister confirm that those unedited documents will now be shared without further delay?

Robin Walker Portrait Mr Walker
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I can confirm that the documents that are being shared with the Select Committee are also being shared in the usual way, with permanent secretaries of the devolved Administrations, on the same basis as they have been shared with the Select Committee. The sectoral analyses do, in many cases, contain important analyses of Scottish issues.