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Kate Green Excerpts

Thursday 14th December 2017 Commons Chamber

[Mr Speaker]

I appeal now to colleagues for shorter questions. I want to try to get through the bulk.

[Kate Green (Stretford and Urmston) (Lab)]

5. What assessment his Department has made of the economic effect of the UK leaving the EU on different sectors of the UK economy.

[The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union (Mr Robin Walker)]

Our sectoral analysis is made up of a wide mix of qualitative and quantitative analyses examining activity across sectors, regulatory and trade frameworks and the views of stakeholders. Our overall programme of work is comprehensive and is continually updated, but it is not, and never has been, a series of impact assessments.

[Kate Green]

Last week the Chancellor of the Exchequer told the Treasury Committee that his Department has modelled and analysed a range of potential structures between the UK and the EU and that those analyses inform our negotiating position. Given that Ministers in the Department for Exiting the European Union are responsible for our negotiations, can the Minister say whether he has read those analyses and how they are informing our negotiating position?

[Mr Walker]

We work very closely with our colleagues in the Treasury and, of course, we make sure that information is shared between us. Our negotiating position is informed, as we have repeatedly said, by a very wide range of analysis, much of which is in the form of advice to Ministers.