Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the effect of the post-UK leaving the EU cabotage rules on UK hauliers involved in live music touring in the EU.

It is the Department for Transport’s assessment that the TCA allows for the vast majority of haulage operations that were being undertaken by UK hauliers before the end of the transition period to continue. During UK-EU negotiations, the UK put forward proposals for an exemption for specialist hauliers carrying out tours for cultural events in the EU, but the EU did not agree to our asks.