Ministers and officials from the Department for Exiting the EU and the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS) have engaged with a range of civil society organisations, including consumer groups, to understand their views and to ensure that their expertise continues to contribute to ongoing negotiations. This includes engagement through the Consumer Protection Partnership (CPP), an operational and strategic group, chaired by BEIS.<\/p>
We will continue to speak to consumer groups as we move through the negotiation process to understand the impact on consumers of the UK's exit from the EU, and to have a complete picture of consumers\u2019 concerns.<\/p>
My Hon Friend the Minister for Small Business, Consumers and Corporate Responsibility has recently invited consumer groups to a roundtable to hear their views on key EU Exit issues. A Minister from the Department for Exiting the European Union will also attend. Details of ministerial meetings are published in the Department\u2019s Quarterly Transparency Returns, which are made publicly available on GOV.UK<\/a>.<\/p>"} , "answeringMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4064", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Mr Steve Baker"} } , "answeringMemberConstituency" : {"_value" : "Wycombe"} , "answeringMemberPrinted" : {"_value" : "Mr Steve Baker"} , "dateOfAnswer" : {"_value" : "2017-10-12", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} , "isMinisterialCorrection" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"} , "questionFirstAnswered" : [{"_value" : "2017-10-12T16:40:26.977Z", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} ]} , "answeringDeptId" : {"_value" : "203"} , "answeringDeptShortName" : {"_value" : "Exiting the European Union"} , "answeringDeptSortName" : {"_value" : "Exiting the European Union"} , "date" : {"_value" : "2017-10-06", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} , "hansardHeading" : {"_value" : "Consumers"} , "houseId" : {"_value" : "1"} , "legislature" : [{"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/terms/25259", "prefLabel" : {"_value" : "House of Commons"} } ], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, pursuant to the Answer of 11 September 2017 to Question 8695, on consumers, which consumer groups have been invited to the planned roundtable event; when the event is due to be held; and on which dates representatives of his Department met (a) Which?, (b) Money Saving Expert, (c) the British Retail Consortium and (d) Citizens Advice.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"} , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4571", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Gill Furniss"} } , "tablingMemberConstituency" : {"_value" : "Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough"} , "tablingMemberPrinted" : [{"_value" : "Gill Furniss"} ], "uin" : "106304"} ], "itemsPerPage" : 10, "page" : 0, "startIndex" : 1, "totalResults" : 1, "type" : ["http://purl.org/linked-data/api/vocab#ListEndpoint", "http://purl.org/linked-data/api/vocab#Page"]} }