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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, to what extent professional qualifications and registrations will continue to be mutually recognised between the UK and the EU after the UK leaves the EU.

Under the terms of the Withdrawal Agreement, the current arrangements between the UK and the EU on the mutual recognition of professional qualifications will continue to apply during the implementation period.

UK nationals and EU citizens who have obtained - or applied for - a recognition decision before the end of the implementation period will continue to be able to rely on those recognition decisions - or have those applications completed - after the implementation period. These provisions will apply to applications for the European Professional Card and qualifications recognised under the Professional Qualifications Directive for the purpose of establishment but not for the temporary and occasional provision of services, lawyers practising under host State title, approved statutory auditors, and persons engaged in the trade and distribution of toxic products.

After the implementation period, new applications for recognition of UK qualifications in the EU, and vice versa, will be subject to arrangements to be agreed in the negotiations on our future relationship.