{"id":637337,"date":"2025-12-17T03:57:16","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T03:57:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/637337\/"},"modified":"2025-12-17T03:57:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T03:57:16","slug":"uk-government-accepts-northern-ireland-post-brexit-trade-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/637337\/","title":{"rendered":"UK government accepts Northern Ireland post-Brexit trade review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">There are some measures that allow Northern Ireland politicians to scrutinise the operation of the framework, including a democratic scrutiny committee at Stormont that includes assembly members from most parties.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But in <a href=\"https:\/\/assets.publishing.service.gov.uk\/media\/6940535cc72b0f8ccf33d7e2\/2025_10_11_Government_Response_to_the_Murphy_Review___3_.pdf\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">his recommendations, external<\/a>, Lord Murphy &#8211; a former secretary of state &#8211; suggested that the committee be given 10 working days instead of the current five, to decide whether to hold an inquiry into a new EU law applying in Northern Ireland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The government&#8217;s official response, published on Tuesday, states that it is &#8220;content&#8221; to afford greater flexibility and &#8220;discretion&#8221; over the timelines that apply to the committee&#8217;s work within its scrutiny period.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It said it would make the necessary changes &#8220;when parliamentary time allows&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In the 27-page response, the government also commits to exploring and developing a scheme to support small businesses to trade with Northern Ireland where they lack a local presence to satisfy product safety rules.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There are some measures that allow Northern Ireland politicians to scrutinise the operation of the framework, including a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":637338,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5226],"tags":[802,748,2000,299,5187,1699,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-637337","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brexit","8":"tag-brexit","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-eu","11":"tag-europe","12":"tag-european","13":"tag-european-union","14":"tag-great-britain","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115732902336439934","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=637337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637337\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/637338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=637337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=637337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=637337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}