Customs Safety and Security Procedures (EU Exit) Regulations 2019

The current position is that the largest number of businesses affected would be UK businesses. Th...

I am grateful to the Minister for indicating how many businesses would be required to have one. H...

The answer is 52,000. I beg to move.

I thank the Minister for the explanation of these three statutory instruments and for the detail ...

My Lords, when the Trade Bill first came to this Chamber in September, out of interest I register...

I too thank the Minister for presenting these SIs. Taking them in the same order as on the Order ...

I am afraid that I will probably disappoint the noble Lord, Lord Tunnicliffe. In this context, I ...

Will the Minister flesh out the word “important”? Can businesses trade if they do not have—I cann...

That is the whole point. We are saying that, in the event of no deal, they would require that to ...

If there are a lot of businesses which have not registered, through negligence or misinformation,...

Clearly, that is a risk. We have put out technical notices and engaged quite significantly with i...

I hope the Minister will forgive me for pressing this point, but there is a world of difference b...

Once they became aware of that situation, if that eventuality occurred, the remedy—to get the reg...

Businesses cannot do it afterwards if they want to trade on day one of exit if there is no deal. ...

Let me clarify that, because I think we can be more helpful on that point. There is a lighter-tou...

I am not sure that it offered the clarity we need. Is it the Government’s position that, in the a...

The reality is that we would prefer them to have an EORI registration number. It is a fairly stra...

I am grateful for the Minister’s patience on this. It is important. He said at the Dispatch Box t...

I am advised that the customs declarations service does have the capacity to process significantl...

Just to clarify once more, there has been legal advice over the years that, when something is in ...

The noble Lord may not have been present for a rather fascinating debate on Pepper v Hart, which ...

I am grateful again to the Minister because this is a very important point. My question is a simp...

I am afraid that I cannot go further than what I have in front of me, but I will happily put an a...