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824027

	registered interest
	date	16/01/2018
	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	British Nationals Abroad
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the rights of UK expatriates after Brexit.
	tabling member printed	Lord Taylor of Warwick
	uin	HL4770
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/01/2018 answer text <p>From the very beginning the Prime Minister has been clear that safeguarding the rights of UK nationals living in the EU, and EU nationals living in the UK, was her first priority for negotiations. This is a commitment we have delivered.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The agreement reached with the EU and set out in the Joint Report published in December, will provide the UK nationals in the EU with certainty about their rights going forward. It will enable UK nationals and their families who have built their lives together in the EU to stay together. This agreement not only gives the people more certainty about residence, but also healthcare, pensions and other benefits.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>There were a number of citizens’ rights issues raised by the UK that were deemed outside the scope of the EU mandate for the first phase of the negotiations. The UK intends to return to in these in the next phase of negotiations.</p><p><strong></strong><br><br></p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Callanan question first answered 25/01/2018 12:51:53 answering member 4336 label Biography information for Lord Callanan
	tabling member	1796 label Biography information for Lord Taylor of Warwick

827913

	registered interest
	date	22/01/2018
	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	UK Trade with EU
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they are taking any steps to maintain regulatory alignment to the single market.
	tabling member printed	Lord Taylor of Warwick
	uin	HL4963
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/01/2018 answer text <p>We are fully focused on making the UK’s exit from the EU, and our new trading relationship with the world, a success. We have set out proposals for an ambitious future trade and customs relationship with the EU, in which we will look to minimise the regulatory barriers for both goods and services. We want to agree the greatest possible tariff- and barrier-free trade with our European neighbours.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>But there will be areas that affect our economic relations where we and our European friends may have different goals; or where we share the same goals but want to achieve them through different means. We recognise that the single market is built on a balance of rights and obligations, and so our task is to find a new framework that allows for a close economic partnership but holds those rights and obligations in a new and different balance.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Callanan question first answered 26/01/2018 13:04:03 answering member 4336 label Biography information for Lord Callanan
	tabling member	1796 label Biography information for Lord Taylor of Warwick

827916

	registered interest
	date	22/01/2018
	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	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what is their response to the speech by the Director-General of the Confederation of British Industry on 22 January proposing that a comprehensive customs union between the UK and the EU should be on the table as part of the Brexit negotiations.
	tabling member printed	Lord Taylor of Warwick
	uin	HL4966
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/01/2018 answer text <p>As the Prime Minister has made clear, on leaving the EU, the UK will also be leaving the Single Market and the Customs Union. We will seek to establish a new and ambitious customs arrangement with the EU that allows us to forge new trading relationships with our partners around the world, while maintaining as frictionless trade as possible in goods between the UK and EU, and providing a positive and powerful voice for free trade.</p><p><br>In our future customs arrangements paper, we set out our two preferred models for a future customs arrangement with the EU. In assessing the options for the UK’s future outside the EU Customs Union, the Government will be guided by what delivers the greatest economic advantage to the UK, and by three strategic objectives:</p><p><strong> </strong></p><ul><li><p>Ensuring UK-EU trade is as frictionless as possible;</p></li><li><p>Avoiding a hard border between Ireland and Northern Ireland;</p></li><li><p>And establishing an independent international trade policy.</p></li></ul><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Callanan question first answered 26/01/2018 13:05:20 answering member 4336 label Biography information for Lord Callanan
	tabling member	1796 label Biography information for Lord Taylor of Warwick

830525

	registered interest
	date	25/01/2018
	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	Financial Services
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they plan to publish a position paper on financial services and Brexit; and what steps they are taking to provide clarity on the implications of Brexit to the financial sector.
	tabling member printed	Lord Taylor of Warwick
	uin	HL5125
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/02/2018 answer text <p>In any negotiation there are careful judgements about when and how to set things out in public and we will keep under review the best way of doing this.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The Government has been clear that it retains the ambition of ensuring the City of London remains a global financial centre.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>We are continuing to engage extensively both with industry and with EU partners to hear their views and set out our arguments. The Prime Minister welcomed a number of senior representatives from the financial services sector to No.10 Downing Street in January 2018 to discuss the opportunities and challenges for the financial sector posed by Brexit.</p> answering member printed Lord Callanan question first answered 07/02/2018 15:57:37 answering member 4336 label Biography information for Lord Callanan
	tabling member	1796 label Biography information for Lord Taylor of Warwick

832848

	registered interest
	date	29/01/2018
	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	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the impact on the economy of businesses implementing contingency plans for a hard Brexit due to lack of clarity over Brexit and the transition period.
	tabling member printed	Lord Taylor of Warwick
	uin	HL5160
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/02/2018 answer text <p>The Government is undertaking a wide range of analysis to support our EU exit negotiations and preparations, looking across the UK economy and drawing on input from numerous stakeholders. We recognise the need for businesses to prepare contingency plans, and we continue to engage with companies to provide clarity wherever we can and to understand the challenges they may face.</p> answering member printed Lord Callanan question first answered 08/02/2018 17:07:58 answering member 4336 label Biography information for Lord Callanan
	tabling member	1796 label Biography information for Lord Taylor of Warwick

837312

	registered interest
	date	05/02/2018
	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	UK Trade with EU
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what alternative arrangements to being in a customs union they will seek with the EU.
	tabling member printed	Lord Taylor of Warwick
	uin	HL5388
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/02/2018 answer text <p>As the Prime Minister has made clear, on leaving the EU, the UK will also be leaving the Single Market and the Customs Union. The Future Partnership paper ‘Future Customs Arrangements’, published last year, put forward two proposed approaches for the UK’s future customs relationship with the EU.<br><br></p><p>One is a highly streamlined customs arrangement, and the other is a new customs partnership. <br><br></p><p>The precise form of any new agreement will be the subject of negotiation.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Callanan question first answered 12/02/2018 13:48:01 answering member 4336 label Biography information for Lord Callanan
	tabling member	1796 label Biography information for Lord Taylor of Warwick

838909

	registered interest
	date	08/02/2018
	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	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the consequences for the Irish border of being outside a customs union with the EU.
	tabling member printed	Lord Taylor of Warwick
	uin	HL5549
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/02/2018 answer text <p>We have been clear throughout that we are firmly committed to avoiding any physical infrastructure on the border between Northern Ireland and Ireland. The principles in the Joint Report from the UK and EU negotiators are a welcome agreement on this crucial issue. We have reached a balanced set of commitments that reiterate both our commitment to avoid a hard border, and our clear position on preserving the constitutional and economic integrity of the UK.</p> answering member printed Lord Callanan question first answered 20/02/2018 17:21:05 answering member 4336 label Biography information for Lord Callanan
	tabling member	1796 label Biography information for Lord Taylor of Warwick

838910

	registered interest
	date	08/02/2018
	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	UK Trade with EU
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of reported concerns amongst EU officials about the UK's proposals for a trading relationship after Brexit.
	tabling member printed	Lord Taylor of Warwick
	uin	HL5550
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/02/2018 answer text <p>We are seeking a bold and ambitious economic partnership that is of greater scope and ambition than any such existing agreement. We want to have the greatest possible tariff- and barrier-free trade with our European neighbours, as well as to negotiate our own trade agreements around the world.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>We have undertaken an extensive programme of engagement. Ministers and senior officials from across Government have been engaging extensively with both the European Institutions and the 27 Member States. We continue to welcome ministers from across Europe to London on a regular basis. We are clear that we want the EU to succeed: a strong and stable EU, with the UK as its closest partner, is in all of our shared interests.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Callanan question first answered 20/02/2018 17:15:54 answering member 4336 label Biography information for Lord Callanan
	tabling member	1796 label Biography information for Lord Taylor of Warwick

846703

	registered interest
	date	21/02/2018
	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	UK Trade with EU
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the potential consequences should the EU reject the managed divergence approach to trade.
	tabling member printed	Lord Taylor of Warwick
	uin	HL5758
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/03/2018 answer text <p>We are fully focused on making the UK’s exit from the EU, and our new trading relationship with the world, a success. The Government has been undertaking rigorous and extensive analysis work to support our exit negotiations, in order to inform our understanding of how EU exit will affect the UK’s domestic policies and frameworks.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>In our negotiations with the EU, the UK is seeking to secure a new, deep and special partnership. We propose the greatest possible tariff-free and barrier-free trade with our European neighbours based on our rules and regulations being the same at the start, and on maintaining our commitment to free trade and high standards.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>However, a responsible government should prepare for all potential outcomes and that is exactly what we are doing across the whole of Government. Every Government department continues to work to ensure a smooth exit from the EU in all eventualities.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Callanan question first answered 01/03/2018 16:01:34 answering member 4336 label Biography information for Lord Callanan
	tabling member	1796 label Biography information for Lord Taylor of Warwick

846707

	registered interest
	date	21/02/2018
	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	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of Michel Barnier’s comments on the possibility of there being no Brexit transition period for the UK.
	tabling member printed	Lord Taylor of Warwick
	uin	HL5762
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/03/2018 answer text <p>Both the Government and the Commission have been clear that a time-limited implementation period is negotiable. Such a period is in the interests of both businesses and individuals in the UK and the EU. The Commission has published their Directives which provide a mandate to negotiate such a period and both sides have set out a legal text for that agreement.</p><p> </p><p>It is in the interests of both the UK and the EU to agree the precise terms of this period as quickly as possible, in order to provide vital certainty to businesses and citizens. We are approaching these negotiations in good faith, as indeed is the EU, and are confident we can reach an agreement.</p> answering member printed Lord Callanan question first answered 01/03/2018 15:59:15 answering member 4336 label Biography information for Lord Callanan
	tabling member	1796 label Biography information for Lord Taylor of Warwick