Question to the Department for International Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, whether his Department has generated any updated estimates of the administrative and compliance costs for British firms linked to rules of origin since the estimates in research published alongside the Balance of Competences Review were produced.
The Department for International Trade has not produced any analysis on this issue that extends the work done for the Balance of Competences Review. HM Treasury’s paper on the long term economic impact of EU membership and the alternatives refers to studies conducted by other institutions on the impact of rules of origin, but these do not specifically focus on the UK.