Question to the Northern Ireland Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what assessment his Department has made of the potential for Northern Ireland to be operating in a different time zone from the rest of the island of Ireland in the event that the EU goes ahead with plans not to continue daylight savings hours as proposed by the EU Parliament.
The setting of time zones is a devolved matter for the locally elected political institutions in Northern Ireland to consider.
The Withdrawal Agreement does not require Northern Ireland to align with the European Union approach to time zones.