Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask His Majesty's Government what are the processes for monitoring and enforcing regulation of parcels sent between Great Britain and Northern Ireland under the Windsor framework.

We have safeguarded parcel movements and maintained business as usual for Northern Ireland consumers. That means parcels can be sent to friends and family in Northern Ireland, with no requirements on either the sender or recipient. People in Northern Ireland ordering from businesses in the rest of the UK will continue to order and receive goods through the post as they do now; and parcels sent between businesses will be able to use the same internal market scheme as applies for freight movements. To support this the UK has agreed that authorised parcel operators will manage a process of sharing data to monitor and manage any risks of smuggling into the EU market. The Government will set out further detail on the operational arrangements in due course.