Question to the Department for Exiting the European Union :

To ask the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, what progress has been made on negotiations for the inclusion of the UK as a separate contracting party to the Common Transit Convention.

The Customs Future Partnership Paper published in August 2017 sets out our objectives for a future customs relationship with the EU, and the two approaches that most closely meet these objectives. The paper indicated UK membership of the CTC could form part of our potential future relationship with the EU.

Having moved beyond the first phase of the negotiations, the Government looks forward to negotiating the UK's future customs relationship with the European Union.