Question to the Department for Exiting the European Union :

To ask the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, at what time and on what date his Department shared the finished White Paper, The Future Relationship with the United Kingdom and the European Union, published on 12 July 2018, with the Welsh Government.

The UK Government White Paper on the future relationship between the UK and the EU was shared with the Welsh Government in the morning of 12 July - the day of publication.

I also spoke with the Welsh Government’s Cabinet Secretary for Finance, Prof. Mark Drakeford AM, first thing in the morning, before the official publication, to talk through the White Paper. We had a positive discussion on its content.

Certain elements of the White Paper were shared with the devolved administrations in advance of publication, as referenced in PQ 163536.