Business and Trade Union Alternative Arrangements Advisory Group

(asked on 2nd March 2020) - View Source

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, on what dates meetings of the Government’s Business and Business and Trade Union Alternative Arrangements Advisory Group took place since June 2019.


Answered by
Penny Mordaunt Portrait
Penny Mordaunt
Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons
This question was answered on 9th March 2020

The Alternative Arrangements Technical Advisory Group met on the 20th June, 17th July and 12th September 2019.

The Alternative Arrangements Business and Trade Union Advisory Group met on 26th June, 10th July and 29th August 2019.

The new Protocol on Ireland / Northern Ireland in the Withdrawal Agreement which was agreed with the EU on the 17th October 2019 and ratified by the UK on the 23rd January 2020 ensures the whole of the UK will be a single customs territory outside the EU Customs Union. It replaces the backstop provisions of the previous Withdrawal Agreement.

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