Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps a business will be required to take to be able to become a trusted trader once the UK has left the EU.

The Government published a White Paper yesterday, which sets out proposals for the future relationship with the EU.

This includes proposals that the UK and the EU would work together on the phased introduction of a new Facilitated Customs Arrangement that would remove the need for customs checks and controls between the UK and the EU as if a combined customs territory. The precise nature of the new customs arrangement, including trusted traders, are subject to negotiations with the EU.