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Andrew Bowie
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(5 years, 10 months ago)
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Andrew Bowie (West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine) (Con)
Has my right hon. Friend made any assessment of the impact on business growth in Scotland if it left the UK’s internal market?
Greg Clark
It would be disastrous. The value of exports from Scotland to the rest of the UK is £45.8 billion, compared with around £12.5 billion to the rest of the EU, so anyone who, like me, is interested in being able to trade without frictions should apply their own analysis to their own policy of pulling out of the UK.