Question to the Department for Business and Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether her Department has made a recent estimate of the potential impact of the ending of freedom of movement with the EU on business costs; and if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of negotiating with the EU to allow frontier worker permits to be applied to more than one EU country at a time.

The Department for Business and Trade does not hold this data. In December 2020, the UK and the EU agreed a Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA), which allows short-term business visitors to travel to the EU. This department is not responsible for frontiers workers permits.