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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, pursuant to the Answer of 7 February 2019 to Question 216357, whether there are UK professionals who have not had their professional qualifications officially recognised but are currently providing services under temporary recognition arrangements in the EU, who will lose their ability to do so in the event of the UK leaving the EU without a deal if there is a no deal Brexit; and what measures he is taking to identify those professionals.

If the UK leaves the EU without a deal, UK nationals will no longer have access to the EU’s reciprocal system of professional qualification recognition, including its mechanism for facilitation of temporary and occasional service provision. In that scenario, UK nationals providing temporary and occasional professional services in an EU Member State will be subject to the host State’s laws.

The Government is continuing to engage with regulators, businesses and professionals on these issues.