Common Travel Area

(asked on 18th May 2016) - View Source

Question to the Northern Ireland Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what assessment she has made of the potential effect on the Common Travel Area of the UK voting to leave the EU.


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Ben Wallace
This question was answered on 31st May 2016

If the UK voted to leave the EU, it is not clear that the Common Travel Area could continue to operate with the UK outside the EU, and Ireland inside, in the same way that it did before both countries joined the EU.

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