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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will make it his policy for the UK to retain membership of (a) the European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization, (b) the European Committee for Standardization and (c) other European standards bodies after the UK has left the EU.

The European Standards Organisations are not EU bodies, though they have a special status in the EU. We are working with BSI, the UK’s national standards body, to ensure that our future relationship with the European Standards Organisations continues to support a productive, open and competitive business environment in the UK.