Asked by: Thelma Walker (Labour - Colne Valley)
Question to the Department for Exiting the European Union :
To ask the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, what steps his Department has taken to reduce its use of single-use plastics .
Answered by Steve Baker
The Department for Exiting the European Union (DExEU) is accommodated in buildings owned by other government departments. The provision of disposable cups is overseen by the landlords for each building.
Asked by: Thelma Walker (Labour - Colne Valley)
Question to the Department for Exiting the European Union :
To ask the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, when his Department plans to respond to the correspondence dated 11 January 2018 from the hon. Member for Colne Valley on a constituent’s concerns about leaving the EU.
Answered by Robin Walker
The Department for Exiting the European Union responded to the hon. Member for Colne Valley’s correspondence regarding her constituent’s concerns about leaving the EU on Monday 12 March 2018.
Asked by: Thelma Walker (Labour - Colne Valley)
Question to the Department for Exiting the European Union :
To ask the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, when his Department plans to respond to the correspondence dated 19 December 2017 from the hon. Member for Colne Valley on a constituent’s concerns over EU nationals.
Answered by Steve Baker
The response to the hon. Member’s correspondence dated 19 December 2017 regarding a constituent’s concerns about EU nationals was dispatched by the Department for Exiting the European Union on 22 February 2018.
Asked by: Thelma Walker (Labour - Colne Valley)
Question to the Department for Exiting the European Union :
To ask the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, whether his Department has conducted an assessment of the effect on exports from Yorkshire to the EU of not having a trade agreement with the EU.
Answered by Robin Walker
As part of our work preparing to make a success of our departure from the European Union, we are carrying out a broad range of analysis as you would expect a responsible Government to do.
Officials across government engage regularly on regional issues to ensure each department’s work programmes consider the impact of Brexit on regions and nations of the UK, including Yorkshire. In the last year three present and former DExEU ministers visited Yorkshire. In October, the Secretary of State and the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State Steve Baker met with the Northern Combined Authority Mayors in York. Prior to that, former Parliamentary Under Secretary of State Lord Bridges hosted a roundtable in Leeds with Yorkshire business leaders and visited a manufacturing site.
As we move into the second phase of negotiations we are confident of agreeing a bold and ambitious Free Trade Agreement with the EU that is of greater scope than any such existing agreement. We believe that securing a future partnership between the UK and EU is in the interests of both sides, so we approach these negotiations anticipating success. We do not want or expect an outcome where no trade agreement is agreed.