Written Question·Northern Ireland Office·UIN 9528

UK Internal Trade: Northern Ireland

Tabled: 16 October 2024
Answered: 21 October 2024
Named Day

Question

Alex Burghart

ConservativeBrentwood and Ongar

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, with reference to his Department's publication entitled Safeguarding the Union, published on 31 January 2024, what progress his Department has made on setting out how public authorities should have speci

Answer

Hilary Benn
Consistent with the commitments made in Safeguarding the Union, the Government published statutory guidance to public authorities on upholding their legal duties to have special regard to the UK internal market on 30 September.