Time Zones: Northern Ireland

(asked on 13th February 2020) - View Source

Question to the Northern Ireland Office:

To ask Her Majesty's Government whether Northern Ireland will operate in a different time zone to the rest of the UK for half of the year after December 2020.


Answered by
Viscount Younger of Leckie Portrait
Viscount Younger of Leckie
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Work and Pensions)
This question was answered on 26th February 2020

The UK has now left the EU, and will not be applying the proposed EU Directive in the UK. There is no obligation for Northern Ireland to align with Ireland or the EU on time zones.

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