Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what consultation process she has undertaken with the Crown Dependencies on the UK leaving the EU.

I have had meetings with the Chief Ministers of Jersey, Guernsey and the Isle of Man in recent months, and visited Jersey in October 2016. In each of these meetings we discussed the concerns of the Crown Dependencies surrounding the UK’s exit from the European Union.

In addition, the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State in the Department for Exiting the European Union has agreed to hold quarterly meetings with the Chief Ministers of each of the Crown Dependencies. Two of these meetings have taken place and a third is scheduled for later this month.

On 18^th November 2016, my department made a submission to the Justice Select Committee on the implications of leaving the EU for the Crown Dependencies. This contains further information on how the UK Government plans to engage with the Crown Dependencies on this important issue.