Brexit: Customs Procedures - Question

Part of the debate – in the House of Lords at 2:41 pm on 15 January 2018.

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Photo of Lord Bates Lord Bates The Minister of State, Department for International Development 2:41, 15 January 2018

Those are exactly the types of conversation we are having. Noble Lords would expect us to have those conversations and we are having them. We have a cross-government border planning group planning for that type of evaluation. But on just-in-time, a lot of the goods come from outside the European Union area. The UK has had great success and has been a prime target for foreign direct investment into the European Union because of the efficiency and speed with which those goods are cleared. We need to ensure that that is now extended to goods coming from within the EU as well.