UK Border Strategy: Single Trade Window Debate
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Lord Foulkes of Cumnock
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UK Border Strategy: Single Trade Window
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Lord Livermore (Lab)
There are costs from designing, developing and administering the technical delivery platform, which have been clearly set out by Deloitte, with support from IBM. We have retained the technical platform in order to retain the option for a future restart of the project. This would allow us to capitalise on the previous investment and could enable a simpler and faster restart of development activity in the future. As I say, we will update the House at the next spending review.
Lord Foulkes of Cumnock (Lab Co-op)
My Lords, returning to the initial Answer, could the Minister remind the House of the challenging fiscal deficit that we inherited?