Question to the Department for Exiting the European Union :

To ask Her Majesty's Government, in the light of their commitment made in response to a Freedom of Information request by Seema Malhotra in October 2017 to release information in an organised and efficient manner on the scope and terms of reference of their sectoral economic analyses of the impact of leaving the EU, when they intend to release that information.

The Government is carrying out an ongoing programme of comprehensive analytical work that will inform our negotiating position with the EU to deliver our objective of a deep and special partnership with the EU, and inform our understanding of how EU exit will affect the UK’s domestic policies and frameworks.

On Monday 30 October 2017, the Government published the list of the 58 sectors used to help structure some of our thinking and analysis. The response to Seema Malhotra was that the Government intended to publish that list of sectors, which it has now done. No such commitment was made in that response to releasing the information relating to the scope or terms of reference for the analysis itself.

Following the opposition day motion of 1 November 2017 regarding the release of Government analysis, the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, Robin Walker, was clear that the Government takes very seriously the motion of parliament, and will respond to it. However, it will take the Government some time to collate and bring together this information in a way that is accessible and informative to the EU Select Committee. We will provide this information to the committee as soon as is possible and we have made plain to the house authorities that we currently expect this to be no more than 3 weeks.