Question to the Department for Exiting the European Union :

To ask the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, whether his Department plans to ensure through negotiations with the EU that the EU will not be able to impose economic sanctions on the UK when it is no longer a member of the EU.

We want our future relationship with the EU to be a deep and special partnership, taking in both economic and security cooperation and, in our Article 50 notification letter, we stressed that the UK will continue to share European values and security interests with our EU partners after we leave.

We are confident that the EU will have no reason to impose economic sanctions, or any other sanctions, on the UK after we leave the EU. On the contrary, the UK and EU will continue to have a shared interest in using economic sanctions to tackle common threats such as terrorism.