Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps the Government is taking to ensure that UK businesses that employ staff abroad under the Posted Workers Directive can retain those employees after the UK leaves the EU.

The Posting of Workers Directive does not apply to staff who are employed in another Member State by a UK company. It sets out the terms and conditions that a member state can apply to workers employed in one Member State and temporarily providing a service in another Member State. The application or otherwise of the Directive has no impact on whether a worker can continue to be employed by a UK company either before or after the UK leaves the EU. Arrangements for providing services in EU Member States will be part of our Future Economic Partnership with the EU and will be subject to negotiation with the EU.