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<p>It is the responsibility of the UK Government to negotiate international agreements,
and it is vital that we retain appropriate flexibility to proceed with negotiations
at pace.</p><p>We are nevertheless clear that the devolved administrations should
be closely involved in the process. We have already engaged extensively with them
in negotiation preparations, and will continue to do so. There is no need to set out
in statute a course of action we are already pursuing.</p><p>Last Thursday, the Chancellor
of the Duchy of Lancaster and Lord Callanan, Minister of State for the Department
for Exiting the European Union, met with Mike Russell at the Joint Ministerial Committee
on EU negotiations.</p>
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