Question follow-through · 48433
UK Trade with EU
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether her Department has made a recent assessment of the potential impact of re-joining the EU Customs Union on the UK economy, in the context of the UK-EU summit on 19 May 2025.
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 28 Apr 2025
- Target answer date
- 1 May 2025
- Answer
- 1 May 2025 · 3 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
28 Apr 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether her Department has made a recent assessment of the potential impact of re-joining the EU Customs Union on the UK economy, in the context of the UK-EU summit on 19 May 2025.
1 May 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
1 May 2025
Answer published
The OBR has estimated that productivity will be 4% lower in the long run than it would have been had the UK not withdrawn from the EU, and that imports and exports will eventually both be 15 per cent lower than had we stayed in the EU. As of the Spring Bu...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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