Question to the Department for Exiting the European Union :

To ask the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, with reference to the Government's policy paper, Collaboration on Science and Innovation: A Future Partnership Paper, published on 6 September 2017, what role he plans for the devolved administrations to have in negotiations on UK collaboration with EU research programmes after the UK has left the EU.

The Government will work closely with the devolved administrations, as well as the governments of Gibraltar, the other Overseas Territories and the Crown Dependencies on the detail of proposals for collaboration with the EU on science and innovation, to ensure their priorities are taken into account.