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The Civitas report aims to identify whether there are advantages to the UK of being an ‘EU insider’ in terms of setting the rules of the Single Market. The report focuses on growth in UK exports as the measure of this benefit. It does not account for the broader positive impacts of the Single Market on the UK, including enhanced competition and innovation at home.

The report refers to Switzerland as an example of a county that has negotiated Free trade Agreements (FTA) as a non-member of the EU. The impact on the UK’s exports of withdrawal from the EU would depend on whether the UK could negotiate similar trade agreements’ to those it currently has as a member of the EU. It would also depend on the FTA that it could negotiate with the EU itself. Switzerland has to pay to be part of the EU single market and to negotiate sector by sector, but does not determine the rules.

","Lord Livingston of Parkhead","2014-11-19T14:58:58.26Z","http://data.parliament.uk/resources/114515/answer","Biography information for Lord Livingston of Parkhead","26","Business, Innovation and Skills","Business, Innovation and Skills","2014-11-05","UK Membership of EU","2","House of Lords","To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the conclusions of Where's the Insider Advantage? A review of the evidence that withdrawal from the EU would not harm the UK’s exports or foreign investment in the UK, published by Civitas.","false","Biography information for Lord Pearson of Rannoch","Lord Pearson of Rannoch","HL2689"