Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, pursuant to the Answer of 16 October 2017 to Question 105923 on UK Trade with EU; what recent discussions he has had with Cabinet colleagues on planning to meet those contingency scenarios.
Officials in the Department are working with their counterparts in other government departments to develop and inform our scenario planning. My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State and I will continue to work with our colleagues cross Government to prepare for the UK’s withdrawal from the EU.