Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what discussions he has had with the Foreign Secretary on the potential effect on British companies of the UK leaving the EU.

My Rt hon Friend the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, meets the Foreign Secretary regularly on a whole range of issues. The Government has a clear mandate to improve Britain’s relationship with the rest of the European Union, and to reform the EU so that it creates jobs and increases living standards for all its citizens. The CBI and BCC have come out to say they support the reform agenda the PM is seeking to deliver. The Prime Minister is focused on success: he believes he can and will succeed in reforming and renegotiating our relationship with the EU and campaigning to keep the UK in the EU on that basis.