Topical Questions

Part of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 17 July 2018.

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Photo of Martin Vickers Martin Vickers Conservative, Cleethorpes 12:00, 17 July 2018

The Secretary of State referred earlier to the visit of his colleague, the Under-Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, my hon. Friend Jake Berry, to north-east Lincolnshire to sign the Greater Grimsby town deal, which is very welcome and I thank him for his support in achieving that. One of the things that his colleague will have seen is the great opportunity to develop trade through the Humber ports. The Humber local enterprise partnership, the local authority, the Hull and Humber chamber of commerce and local businesses have been working towards the possibility of free port status, post-Brexit. Can the Minister assure them that nothing that comes out of the negotiations will prevent that from happening?