Small Businesses: Non-financial Reporting Requirements

Part of Business and Trade – in the House of Commons am ar 2 Mai 2024.

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Photo of Kevin Hollinrake Kevin Hollinrake Minister of State (Department for Business and Trade)

I am surprised that the hon. Gentleman’s question is put that way. We are trying to make sure that we have a fair and level playing field for UK exporters and EU exporters. Of course we need checks on the borders on that basis—it would not be fair to UK producers if that was not the case—but what he is pushing for in a sanitary and phytosanitary agreement is what his hon. Friend Gareth Thomas was pushing for: dynamic alignment with the EU, which would lock us into EU rules permanently. We do not believe in that. We believe we have a bright future outside the European Union. He would lock us back into the customs union and the single market.