Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Robin Walker and Kevin Foster

Thursday 25th October 2018 Commons Chamber

[Kevin Foster (Torbay) (Con)]

T4. Torbay’s language colleges are delighted to welcome thousands of students from across Europe each year to enjoy the beautiful bay and to learn English. Will the Minister outline how the needs of that sector have been considered in our negotiations with the EU?

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

Studying abroad is a great opportunity for many students and we want to ensure that it continues. We have proposed a UK-EU co-operative accord on culture and education for after we leave, allowing British and EU students to continue to visit one another’s countries, and study in one another’s colleges and universities.

Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Robin Walker and Kevin Foster

Thursday 14th June 2018 Commons Chamber

[Mr Walker]

No, I agree with the Conservative and Labour manifestos that said that we should be leaving the customs union and ensuring that we have an independent trade policy, but we also want to deliver the frictionless trade that businesses up and down our country need.

[Kevin Foster (Torbay) (Con)]

In the discussions with the European Union, have the Government made it clear that we would not tolerate a solution that put the customs border down the Irish sea, or for that matter, between England and Scotland, as some others want to do?

[Mr Walker]

My hon. Friend makes an excellent point. We have made that abundantly clear, and the Prime Minister has been very clear that no UK Prime Minister could accept such a solution.