Asked by: Lord Caine (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask His Majesty's Government whether they carried out an impact assessment prior to the decision not to proceed with UK-wide implementation of “Not for EU” labelling with regard to the availability of goods in Northern Ireland; and if so, whether they plan to publish that assessment.
Answered by Baroness Hayman of Ullock - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)
The Government has carefully reviewed the evidence from the consultation carried out earlier this year and has conducted comprehensive engagement with businesses. This has informed our planned approach which will safeguard the supply of goods into Northern Ireland.
We will work intensively with industry to monitor those supplies and to be assured that they will be maintained as the implementation of the Windsor Framework continues. At the same time, we will take the powers necessary to apply ‘not for EU’ labelling in the future, if that is required to secure those supplies across the UK internal market.