Member

The Secondary Legislation Scrutiny Committee has done a job of work in relation to these regulations. It has highlighted the costs to business—in some cases hundreds of millions of pounds. It talked about the conditions whereby the Minister must issue a notice if it is to apply, but that is only if it can be proved that the delisting of goods being sent to Northern Ireland is the result only of the “not for EU” labelling requirement. I would be very interested to know how that will be worked out in the timescales that the Government say that they have set out. That will be a very tough examination, and I am sure there will be lots of loopholes.