Brexit: European Parliament Resolution

Lord Foulkes of Cumnock Excerpts

Thursday 6th April 2017 Lords Chamber

[Lord Soley (Lab)]

My Lords, the Minister—

[Lord Foulkes of Cumnock (Lab)]

My Lords, has the Minister had time to consider paragraph 29 of the European Parliament resolution, which calls for the relocation of the European Banking Authority and the European Medicines Agency from the United Kingdom to another country in Europe as quickly as practicable? Have the Government made any assessment of the impact of that?

[Baroness Goldie]

If I can recover from the stereophonic effect of the contributions from the Labour Benches, I thank the noble Lord for raising that issue. It is specific to the negotiations. I am certain that it will be discussed within the negotiations. It would be quite wrong for me to pre-empt an answer to that, and I am not going to do so.