Ian Paisley – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Northern Ireland Office

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Ian Paisley on 2016-05-18.

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what assessment she has made of the potential effect on the Common Travel Area of the UK voting to leave the EU.

Mr Ben Wallace

If the UK voted to leave the EU, it is not clear that the Common Travel Area could continue to operate with the UK outside the EU, and Ireland inside, in the same way that it did before both countries joined the EU.