Asked by: Katie White (Labour - Leeds North West)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of pursuing a new status with the European Union that would allow the United Kingdom access to the single market in exchange for providing security assurances and establishing a framework for reasonable, yet non-binding, regulatory alignment.
Answered by Nick Thomas-Symonds - Paymaster General and Minister for the Cabinet Office
We are committed to strengthening our relationship with the EU to make the UK safer, more secure and more prosperous, including through negotiating a Security and Defence Partnership with the EU. We have been clear that there will be no return to the single market, the customs union, or freedom of movement.