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1020594

	registered interest
	date	06/12/2018
	answering body	Department for Exiting the European Union
	answering dept id	203
	answering dept short name	Exiting the European Union
	answering dept sort name	Exiting the European Union
	hansard heading	Department for Exiting the European Union: Facebook
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, pursuant to the Answer of 12 November 2018 to Question 188822 on Department for Exiting the European Union: Facebook, which geographies including the details of any postcodes used have been targeted by his Department to ensure that their adverts are optimised to reach the right audience.
	tabling member constituency	Walthamstow
	tabling member printed	Stella Creasy
	uin	199866
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2018 answer text <p>The Department has previously confirmed (Question 188822) that a geographical targeted approach was used to ensure effective communication through social media.</p><p>Social media campaigns, including Facebook, have targeted EU citizens to communicate the progress of the UK’s EU exit. This has included the following countries:</p><p>UK</p><p>Hungary</p><p>Luxembourg</p><p>Estonia</p><p>Latvia</p><p>Slovenia</p><p>Lithuania</p><p>Croatia</p><p>Romania</p><p>Slovakia</p><p>Finland</p><p>Denmark</p><p>Bulgaria</p><p>Austria</p><p>Sweden</p><p>Portugal</p><p>Czech Republic</p><p>Greece</p><p>Netherlands</p><p>Poland</p><p>Ireland</p><p>Belgium</p><p>Italy</p><p>Spain</p><p>France</p><p>Germany</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Daventry answering member printed Chris Heaton-Harris question first answered 11/12/2018 13:28:10 answering member 3977 label Biography information for Chris Heaton-Harris
	tabling member	4088 label Biography information for Stella Creasy

1020749

	registered interest
	date	06/12/2018
	answering body	Department for Exiting the European Union
	answering dept id	203
	answering dept short name	Exiting the European Union
	answering dept sort name	Exiting the European Union
	hansard heading	EU Action
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, if he will list all outstanding infraction proceedings which the EU is pursuing against the UK; and what estimate he has made of the potential resultant costs to the public purse from those proceedings.
	tabling member constituency	Witham
	tabling member printed	Priti Patel
	uin	199862
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2018 answer text <p>The UK has 64 open infraction cases at present.</p><p>Full details of all open infraction cases are publically available on the European Commission's ‘<a href="http://ec.europa.eu/atwork/applying-eu-law/infringements-proceedings/infringement_decisions/index.cfm?lang_code=EN&amp;r_dossier=&amp;noncom=0&amp;decision_date_from=&amp;decision_date_to=&amp;active_only=0&amp;DG=TAXU&amp;title=&amp;submit=Search" target="_blank">Infringement Decisions</a>’ website.</p><p>The UK has never previously been fined in relation to an infraction case and continues to engage constructively in the EU’s infraction process.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Daventry answering member printed Chris Heaton-Harris question first answered 11/12/2018 16:08:04 answering member 3977 label Biography information for Chris Heaton-Harris
	tabling member	4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel

1020254

	registered interest
	date	05/12/2018
	answering body	Department for Exiting the European Union
	answering dept id	203
	answering dept short name	Exiting the European Union
	answering dept sort name	Exiting the European Union
	hansard heading	Borders: Northern Ireland
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, what assessment he has made of the potential implications for a hard border on the island of Ireland of the UK leaving the EU without a deal and trading on WTO terms.
	tabling member constituency	Feltham and Heston
	tabling member printed	Seema Malhotra
	uin	199409
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2018 answer text <p>The backstop is our ultimate safeguard in the event there is a gap between the end of the implementation period and the start of our new ambitious relationship, we will uphold the commitments of the Belfast Agreement and ensure there’s no return to a hard border. This is essential to safeguarding the lives and livelihoods of the people of Northern Ireland.</p><p>The UK Government is clear that, in the event of no deal, we will do everything in our power to prevent a return to a hard border. In such a scenario, we must continue to respect our unique relationship with Ireland, with whom we share a land border and who are co-signatories of the Belfast Agreement.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Daventry answering member printed Chris Heaton-Harris question first answered 11/12/2018 13:25:22 answering member 3977 label Biography information for Chris Heaton-Harris
	tabling member	4253 label Biography information for Seema Malhotra

1019852

	registered interest
	date	04/12/2018
	answering body	Department for Exiting the European Union
	answering dept id	203
	answering dept short name	Exiting the European Union
	answering dept sort name	Exiting the European Union
	hansard heading	Department for Exiting the European Union: Travel
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, what the cost to the public purse was of travel between the UK and Brussels by Ministers, civil servants and ministerial staff in each month for which figures are available since June 2017.
	tabling member constituency	Cardiff Central
	tabling member printed	Jo Stevens
	uin	198867
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2018 answer text <p>The Department has spent £291,694 since the beginning of Financial Year 17/18 to Brussels. This figure is made of £138,000 in Financial Year 17/18 whilst current spend in Financial Year 18/19 is £153,694.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Daventry answering member printed Chris Heaton-Harris question first answered 11/12/2018 15:58:55 answering member 3977 label Biography information for Chris Heaton-Harris
	tabling member	4425 label Biography information for Jo Stevens

1019987

	registered interest
	date	04/12/2018
	answering body	Department for Exiting the European Union
	answering dept id	203
	answering dept short name	Exiting the European Union
	answering dept sort name	Exiting the European Union
	hansard heading	Trade Agreements
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, whether the Withdrawal Agreement will allow the UK to negotiate trade deals with third countries.
	tabling member constituency	Upper Bann
	tabling member printed	David Simpson
	uin	198779
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2018 answer text <p>As set out in Article 129 of the Withdrawal Agreement, during the Implementation Period the UK will be able to negotiate, sign and ratify our own free trade agreements with new partners, and bring them into force after the implementation period.</p><p>Furthermore, the text of the Political Declaration is clear that whatever is agreed in the future partnership must recognise the development of an independent UK trade policy beyond this economic partnership.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Daventry answering member printed Chris Heaton-Harris question first answered 11/12/2018 11:20:58 answering member 3977 label Biography information for Chris Heaton-Harris
	tabling member	1597 label Biography information for David Simpson

1019989

	registered interest
	date	04/12/2018
	answering body	Department for Exiting the European Union
	answering dept id	203
	answering dept short name	Exiting the European Union
	answering dept sort name	Exiting the European Union
	hansard heading	Brexit: Negotiations
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, how many people were involved in negotiating the EU Withdrawal Agreement.
	tabling member constituency	Upper Bann
	tabling member printed	David Simpson
	uin	198780
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2018 answer text <p>Negotiating the Withdrawal Agreement required a cross-government effort, supporting the Prime Minister and the Secretary of State for Exiting the EU in delivering the negotiations.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Daventry answering member printed Chris Heaton-Harris question first answered 11/12/2018 13:17:06 answering member 3977 label Biography information for Chris Heaton-Harris
	tabling member	1597 label Biography information for David Simpson

1019992

	registered interest
	date	04/12/2018
	answering body	Department for Exiting the European Union
	answering dept id	203
	answering dept short name	Exiting the European Union
	answering dept sort name	Exiting the European Union
	hansard heading	Customs Unions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, what steps his Department is taking to ensure the UK is not forced to stay in a customs union by the EU.
	tabling member constituency	Upper Bann
	tabling member printed	David Simpson
	uin	198782
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2018 answer text <p>The agreed Protocol on Ireland/Northern Ireland, in the Withdrawal Agreement, guarantees that even in the event that the UK’s future relationship with the EU is not in place by the end of the Implementation Period, there will be no hard border between Northern Ireland and Ireland. The Withdrawal Agreement provides for a single customs territory between the UK and the EU. This ensures that Northern Ireland remains in the same customs territory as Great Britain, while meeting our commitments to the people of Northern Ireland to ensure no hard border on the island of Ireland. Both sides have been clear that the backstop is an insurance policy which we do not expect to use, and if needed, is explicitly temporary.</p><p>The Political Declaration is clear that there will be an economic partnership between the UK and the EU with no tariffs or quotas, with ambitious customs arrangements that build and improve on the Withdrawal Agreement. In building and improving on the arrangements in the Withdrawal Agreement, the Political Declaration is clear that the UK and EU will act in line with the objectives and principles of the agreement, including the development of an independent UK trade policy beyond the economic partnership with the EU.</p><p>Preparatory organisational work for the formal negotiations on the future relationship will begin as soon as the Withdrawal Agreement is concluded, and before the UK leaves the EU, focusing on key issues such as the development of alternative arrangements for ensuring the absence of a hard border between Northern Ireland and Ireland on a permanent footing.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Daventry answering member printed Chris Heaton-Harris question first answered 11/12/2018 11:23:06 answering member 3977 label Biography information for Chris Heaton-Harris
	tabling member	1597 label Biography information for David Simpson

1019415

	registered interest
	date	03/12/2018
	answering body	Department for Exiting the European Union
	answering dept id	203
	answering dept short name	Exiting the European Union
	answering dept sort name	Exiting the European Union
	hansard heading	Brexit
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, what the cost to the public purse was of the Government's case against the ECJ's hearing whether the UK is able unilaterally to revoke its decision to leave the EU.
	tabling member constituency	Stockton North
	tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
	uin	198217
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2018 answer text <p>The Government does not have a final figure for its costs, but in our Annual Report and Accounts for Financial Year 18/19, there will be a disclosure of the Department's legal costs.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Spelthorne answering member printed Kwasi Kwarteng question first answered 11/12/2018 11:19:47 answering member 4134 label Biography information for Kwasi Kwarteng
	tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

1019492

	registered interest
	date	03/12/2018
	answering body	Department for Exiting the European Union
	answering dept id	203
	answering dept short name	Exiting the European Union
	answering dept sort name	Exiting the European Union
	hansard heading	Fisheries: UK Relations with EU
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, whether he has received a commitment from the EU that future arrangements for fisheries between the UK and the EU will not be linked to the future UK-EU economic partnership.
	tabling member constituency	Witham
	tabling member printed	Priti Patel
	uin	198251
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2018 answer text <p>The Political Declaration is clear. The UK and the EU have agreed that a fisheries agreement should be established on, amongst other things, access to waters and quota shares. Consistent with the Withdrawal Agreement, the Political Declaration also states that the UK and the EU have agreed to aim to conclude this agreement by 1 July 2020.</p><p>We have firmly rejected a link between access to our waters and access to markets. The fisheries agreement is not something we will be trading off against any other priorities.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Daventry answering member printed Chris Heaton-Harris question first answered 11/12/2018 11:18:39 answering member 3977 label Biography information for Chris Heaton-Harris
	tabling member	4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel

1016298

	registered interest
	date	28/11/2018
	answering body	Department for Exiting the European Union
	answering dept id	203
	answering dept short name	Exiting the European Union
	answering dept sort name	Exiting the European Union
	hansard heading	Brexit
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, whether the UK is able unilaterally to withdraw from the proposed EU withdrawal agreement; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Central Suffolk and North Ipswich
	tabling member printed	Dr Dan Poulter
	uin	196727
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/12/2018 answer text <p>It is a matter of customary international law, by which the UK is bound, that unilateral termination is prohibited outside the terms of a treaty. The Withdrawal Agreement contains no provision regarding termination and therefore, once in force, the UK would not be able unilaterally to terminate it.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Spelthorne answering member printed Kwasi Kwarteng question first answered 11/12/2018 16:06:11 answering member 4134 label Biography information for Kwasi Kwarteng
	tabling member	3932 label Biography information for Dr Dan Poulter