Question to the Northern Ireland Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what the (a) contact details, (b) office address, (c) staffing complement and (d) operating budget of the Windsor Framework Independent Monitoring Panel is; and whether minutes of that Panel's meetings are published.

This Government is committed to implementing the Windsor Framework and taking all steps necessary to protect the UK internal market. In support of that, I confirmed the appointment of Anna Jerzewska, Aidan Reilly and Alastair Hamilton as the Windsor Framework Independent Monitoring Panel on 19 September.

The Panel will report to Government on the basis set out in the Safeguarding the Union command paper. The arrangements for the Panel are in the process of being put in place and, consistent with their status, Panellists will not be employees of the UK Government. They will be supported by a secretariat function.