Question to the Department for Exiting the European Union :

To ask the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, pursuant to the Oral Statement of 28 November 2017, Official Report, column 161, on leaving the EU: sectoral impact assessments, how many pages of material have been withheld in addition to the 850 pages submitted to the Exiting the European Union Committee.

In order to meet the motion of 1st November, we have taken time to bring together the sectoral analyses in a way that is accessible and informative to the Committee. We have not edited or redacted reports. At the time the motion was passed, and subsequently, we were clear that the documents did not exist in the form requested.

The Government has to be mindful of its obligations not to allow sensitive information to be public, so we have sought not to include commercially, market and negotiation sensitive information, but we have been as open as possible. The material we have provided to the Select Committee is very substantial.