Question follow-through · 30245
Consumer Goods: Prices
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of establishing a customs union with the EU on retail prices of consumer goods.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 10 Feb 2025
- Target answer date
- 12 Feb 2025
- Answer
- 18 Feb 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
10 Feb 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of establishing a customs union with the EU on retail prices of consumer goods.
12 Feb 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
18 Feb 2025
Answer published
No. The Government is working with the EU to identify areas where we can strengthen cooperation for mutual benefit, such as the economy, energy, security and resilience. But we have been clear that there will be no return to the customs union.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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