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

To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have made to ensure that UK car manufacturers can maintain their integrated supply chains after March 2019 if there is no withdrawal deal agreed with the EU.

The UK is the second largest market for cars in the EU, with manufacturing supply chains highly integrated across Europe. The Government recognises the importance these integrated supply chains play in maintaining the competitiveness of the UK automotive industry. There has been extensive cross-government engagement with key stakeholders across the automotive sector since the referendum, which has informed and continues to inform our thinking.

We are acting to strengthen the domestic supply chain. As part of the Automotive Sector Deal, Government is investing in a new industry-led programme to raise the competitiveness of UK industry suppliers to match the best in Europe. This will support the industry’s ambition to increase the level of content by value in domestically-built vehicles to 50 per cent by 2022.