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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, pursuant to the Answer of 6 March 2017 to Question 65635, on Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Brexit, what (a) EU agencies and other organisations are within his Department's remit, (b) staff time was spent on engagement with those bodies and (c) financial resources were spent on engagement with those bodies in 2015-16.

BEIS and its executive bodies work with a number of EU agencies including the European Chemicals Agency, European Union Intellectual Property Office, European Standardisation Organisations (CEN and CELNEC) and the European Network of Transmission System Operators for Electricity, amongst others. A full list of EU agencies and bodies can be found on the Commission website https://europa.eu/european-union/about-eu/agencies_en. We do not disaggregate the time and resource spent on this engagement.