Question to the Department for Exiting the European Union :

To ask the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, what the titles are of the studies his Department has conducted on the effect on small businesses of the UK leaving the EU.

The Department for Exiting the European Union is undertaking a comprehensive programme of analytical work across a range of scenarios. We are examining all areas of the UK economy from a number of perspectives and seeking input from a wide range of stakeholders. As part of this, we have looked at 58 sectors of the economy, as set out in our response to the Lords EU External Affairs Sub-committee report “Brexit: Trade in Goods” which can be found at: https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld201617/ldselect/ldeucom/129/129.pdf.

We will continue to engage with businesses and industry bodies from all sectors of the economy, and all regions and nations of the UK, in order to inform our negotiations with the EU.

We have published 14 detailed papers on the negotiations to date and will continue to be as open as possible subject to the overwhelming national interest of preserving our negotiating position. Ministers have a specific responsibility, which Parliament has endorsed, not to release information that would undermine our negotiating position.