Northern Ireland Protocol Bill

Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 9:40 pm on 27 June 2022.

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Photo of Brandon Lewis Brandon Lewis The Secretary of State for Northern Ireland 9:40, 27 June 2022

The hon. Gentleman makes an important point, and it is absolutely our determination that the Bill will ensure a good, flexible free flow of products from Great Britain to Northern Ireland, in the same way that they would move from Great Yarmouth to Carlisle, Birmingham or London. That is what we want to deliver.

One of the reasons we have taken what colleagues refer to as the Henry VIII powers is to ensure that we work with business to make sure that those regulations deliver that free-flowing, flexible process without the bureaucracy that is deterring businesses from accessing Northern Ireland.