Brexit: Release of Impact Assessments

Lord Watts Excerpts
Tuesday 28th November 2017

(6 years, 5 months ago)

Lords Chamber
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Lord Callanan Portrait Lord Callanan
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I am not privy to the details of those Bills, which are being done by different departments, but I would expect that they will publish impact assessments at the time.

Lord Watts Portrait Lord Watts (Lab)
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My Lords, can the Minister have another go at answering the question put to him about the customs union? Does the report indicate whether it would be a good or bad thing for us to stay in or leave the customs union?

Lord Callanan Portrait Lord Callanan
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My Lords, I might be repeating myself but this is a series of sectoral analyses, analysing individual sectors of the economy in great detail. They show what things are going on in their sectors, what stakeholders have said to us and other key factors facing us. As I have said, it is the policy of the Government that we will leave the single market and the customs union, because that is in the best interests of satisfying the result of the referendum.