Grant Shapps – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Exiting the European Union

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Grant Shapps on 2016-10-14.

To ask the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of adding a five years sunset clause to the proposed Great Repeal Bill governing the expiry of EU legislation which has entered the statute book.

Mr David Jones

The Government has committed to introducing a Bill in the next parliamentary session which will repeal the European Communities Act 1972. The principle of the Bill is about creating legal certainty for the UK on exit day and we will set out its content in due course.