Imports from EU to GB: Business Preparation Debate

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Department: Cabinet Office

Imports from EU to GB: Business Preparation

Lord Purvis of Tweed Excerpts
Thursday 16th September 2021

(3 years, 3 months ago)

Lords Chamber
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Lord Frost Portrait Lord Frost (Con)
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My Lords, we face a complex set of interacting economic facts at the moment, and the decision that we took responds to that. We maintain the controls that are right for us, and we now have the powers to control and manage our economy as we see fit. We do not have to do the same thing as the European Union, and indeed, after 1 July, we are unlikely to have exactly the same levels of physical checks as the EU. We monitor the situation in all its respects, and we will take the decisions that are necessary to support the British economy.

Lord Purvis of Tweed Portrait Lord Purvis of Tweed (LD)
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My Lords, on 21 July, the Government published their new border operating model, page 8 of which gives a commentary about how they have taken into consideration the impacts of Covid as the reason why they had made the delays already. So what has happened in the intervening seven weeks, between 21 July and now, that allows the Government to think that they are still not ready at their ports?