Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether he has had discussions with the Minister for the Cabinet Office on the future of UK’s copyright exhaustion regime at the end of the transition period; and what representations he has received from the creative industries on the matter.

The Intellectual Property Office is working with departments across Government, including the Cabinet Office on the future of the IP exhaustion regime at the end of the transition period. Officials have engaged with a wide cross section of creative industries in consideration of this matter. Any change to the future exhaustion regime will be subject to consultation.