Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many face-to-face Brexit Readiness Roadshows his Department has organised for the purpose of providing information and advice in the event of the UK leaving the EU without a deal; and what the locations were of those roadshows.

The Department has organised 30 Brexit Business Readiness events over 6 weeks to help prepare businesses for 31 October. Roadshow event locations are: Northampton, Nottingham, Swindon, London, Sheffield, Leicester, Perth, Glasgow, Birmingham, Southampton, Brighton, Hull, Plymouth, Leeds, Derry/Londonderry, Cambridge, Belfast, Ipswich, Newcastle, Carlisle, Cardiff, Liverpool, Wrexham, Bristol, Reading, Manchester, Middlesbrough, Stoke on Trent, Wolverhampton and Canterbury.