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How did you come to the conclusion that extension was the best option? We reviewed the financial outcomes from all three options and extension was clearly the best option.
I take the minister’s point about a Government review of the best environmental options. I accept that concession and the spirit in which it was given.
Careful consideration has been given to how best to ensure that such persons can be afforded procedural safeguards when a hearing makes a contact direction.
Again, I think that the integrity of intergovernmental negotiations is the most important thing to preserve, and I think that that is in the best interests of both Governments in trying to reach a deal.
We would probably be restricted to World Trade Organization rules when it comes to trade, which means most favoured nation status, so we would get the best customs tariff that the EU offers, but that is about it and we would have to pay customs duties.
As Janet Brown has said, we deliver a lot of products and services and we would like to understand better which products contribute best and which need to be subsidised from other activities.