| Heading: |
UK Trade with EU |
| Question ID: |
1797709 |
| UIN: |
48433 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-04-28 |
| Asking Member ID: |
4434 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Stephen Gethins
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
Stephen Gethins
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether her Department has made a recent assessment of the potential impact of re-joining the EU Customs Union on the UK economy, in the context of the UK-EU summit on 19 May 2025. |
| Is named day: |
true |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-05-01 |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
4797 |
| Answering Member display name: |
James Murray
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| Answering Member handle: |
jamesmurray_ldn
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@jamesmurray_ldn
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| Answer text: |
The OBR has estimated that productivity will be 4% lower in the long run than it would have been had the UK not withdrawn from the EU, and that imports and exports will eventually both be 15 per cent lower than had we stayed in the EU. As of the Spring Bu... |
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| Answering body ID: |
14 |
| Answering body name: |
Treasury |
| Tweeted: |
true |