Exiting the EU: Sectoral Impact Assessments

Debate between Baroness Laing of Elderslie and Catherine McKinnell

Wednesday 1st November 2017 Commons Chamber

[Catherine McKinnell]

The Minister must accept that the impact of Brexit will not be uniform across the country, which is why the Chancellor acknowledged that the Government have not only carried out sectoral impact assessments but looked at regions. Will the Minister explain what information the Government will release about the impact on different regions of the UK, so that we can not only understand the impact of Brexit but prepare for it?

[Madam Deputy Speaker]

Order. In addition to not having lots of tautological points of order, we will also not have any more extremely long interventions. Short interventions are—[Interruption.] Order. We will not have any more extremely long interventions, because it is simply not fair to the people who want to speak later in the debate.