Asked by: Tracy Brabin (Labour (Co-op) - Batley and Spen)
Question to the Department for Exiting the European Union :
To ask the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, whether he has held any meetings with UK based bed manufacturers since the creation of his Department.
Answered by Steve Baker
Ministers and officials from across Government continue to engage extensively across the economy, listening to business’ priorities and issues as they relate to our exiting the European Union. This includes regular engagement with the manufacturing sector across the country.
As the Prime Minister has set out, we want the UK to have the greatest possible tariff- and barrier-free trade in goods and services with our European neighbours.
Asked by: Tracy Brabin (Labour (Co-op) - Batley and Spen)
Question to the Department for Exiting the European Union :
To ask the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, what childcare facilities his Department makes available for staff; how much his Department spent (a) overall and (b) per child on those childcare facilities in the last year; and how many staff members use those childcare facilities.
Answered by Steve Baker
The Department for Exiting the European Union participates in a childcare voucher scheme and has an active parenting and carers network to support staff. As a new department DExEU is in the process of forming its HR systems and processes, and we are also undertaking further work to provide support for childcare during school holidays.
Asked by: Tracy Brabin (Labour (Co-op) - Batley and Spen)
Question to the Department for Exiting the European Union :
To ask the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, pursuant to the Answer of 26 June 2017 to Question 239, on what dates he plans to release the list of sectors his Department has been examining.
Answered by Robin Walker
The list of sectors that we have been examining will be published shortly. Parliament has agreed that we will not publish anything that would undermine the Government’s ability to negotiate the best deal for Britain, and our commitment to publication does not mean that we have changed our position on revealing information which may harm our negotiating position.
Asked by: Tracy Brabin (Labour (Co-op) - Batley and Spen)
Question to the Department for Exiting the European Union :
To ask the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, with reference to the Answer of 30 March 2017 to Question 69306, for what reason he believes the information requested would undermine the ability to negotiate the best possible deal for Britain.
Answered by Robin Walker
The Department for Exiting the European Union, working with officials across Government, continues to undertake a wide range of analysis to support our negotiations. Our work covers the breadth of the UK economy, and we are looking in detail at more than 50 sectors as well as areas of cross-cutting regulation. Parliament has agreed that we will not publish anything that would undermine the Government’s ability to negotiate the best deal for Britain. Now, that the Prime Minister has initiated the Article 50 process and negotiations have begun in earnest, I can confirm that we will shortly be publishing the list of sectors we have been examining - though this of course does not mean that we have changed our position on revealing information which may harm our negotiating position.
Asked by: Tracy Brabin (Labour (Co-op) - Batley and Spen)
Question to the Department for Exiting the European Union :
To ask the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, how many staff are seconded to his Department; and how many such staff are seconded from which companies and organisations.
Answered by Robin Walker
The department has sourced a large proportion of experienced staff from across Whitehall and a number of secondees from the private sector and the wider public sector. We are not in a position to give a final total for particular groups of staff as recruitment is ongoing and numbers are regularly changing.
Asked by: Tracy Brabin (Labour (Co-op) - Batley and Spen)
Question to the Department for Exiting the European Union :
To ask the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, pursuant to his oral contribution of 2 February 2017, Official Report, column 1218, if he will list those 58 economic sectors.
Answered by David Jones
The Department for Exiting the European Union, working with officials across Government, continues to undertake a wide range of data analysis covering the entirety of the UK economy. We are looking at over 50 sectors as well as cross-cutting regulatory issues. This will inform the UK's position for the upcoming negotiations with our EU partners. The Government's plan for leaving the EU has been discussed at length, and Parliament will have a say on the final deal we achieve with the European Union by putting that deal to a vote in both Houses before it comes into force. But as Parliament has also agreed, we will not publish anything that would undermine our ability to negotiate the best deal for Britain.