1/ A few clips from yesterday's DExEU SC with Philip Rycroft, Head of UK Gov Group & Permanent Sec, DExEU. @hilarybennmp : 'Is the govt making provisions for portaloos on the M20 in the event of long queues?'*After March 2019*
2/ Very moot question from @hilarybennmp about the govt's use of non disclosure agreements in preparation for Brexit.
3/ 'Is the witness able to tell us when he thinks a decision has to be made about a no-deal agreement?' Peter Bone. What follows is a master class of obfuscation & evasion.
4/ 'It would be extraordinary, in the selection of dozens of notices covering everything from Horizon 2020, trade remedies, rural development etc, that we didn't have one technical paper exclusively for NI' *and in relation to the NI-IRE border issues*. @patmcfaddenmp
5/ 'There is a very large quantity of secondary legislation that needs to be taken through *parliament*'. Approximately 800 statutory instrument (SIs) before March 2019. Yikes! @SeemaMalhotra1
6/ Following on from Bone's question (clip 3), @hilarybennmp asks whether the govt have considered the impact of UK businesses pursuing private litigation/judicial review against the govt on the grounds of late/inadequate notification *of a no-deal* on UK biz operations.
