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Post-Brexit common frameworks

Inquiry

The Common Frameworks Scrutiny was appointed on 17 September 2020 to scrutinise and consider matters relating to Common Frameworks.

The United Kingdom’s exit from the European Union will result in a number of powers that are currently held by the EU being returned to the UK. Many of these powers currently intersect with the competences of at least one of the Scottish, Welsh or Northern Irish governments.

Common frameworks are a mechanism for the UK and devolved governments to mutually agree some amount of regulatory consistency for policy areas where returning EU powers are within devolved competence.

The Committee is considering how the common frameworks programme will operate and relate to other initiatives, how it could be reviewed and improved in the future, and the role for parliamentary scrutiny across the UK.

This inquiry is no longer accepting evidence

The deadline for submissions was Thursday 16 September 2021.

Reports, special reports and government responses

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1st Report - Common frameworks: an unfulfilled opportunity?
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Letter from Baroness Bloomfield to Baroness Andrews regarding questions raised in the Common Frameworks Scrutiny Committee Report Debate
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Office for the Internal Market response to Common Frameworks report 'Common frameworks: an unfulfilled opportunity?
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Letter from Nadhim Zahawi MP to Baroness Andrews on the Government Response to the Common Frameworks Scrutiny Committee report
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Government Response to the Common Frameworks Scrutiny Committee 2nd Report 'Common frameworks - an unfulfilled opportunity?
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1st Report - Common frameworks: building a cooperative Union
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Letter from Chloe Smith MP to Baroness Andrews on on the Government’s response to the Committee’s report on Common Frameworks, 29 June 2021
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Letter from Baroness Andrews to Chloe Smith MP on the Governments Response Committee’s report, 17 June 2021
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Government response to the HL Common Framework Committee report: Post-Brexit common frameworks
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Letter from Chloe Smith MP to Baroness Andrews on on the Government’s response to the Committee’s report on Common Frameworks, 29 June 2021
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Letter from Baroness Andrews to Chloe Smith MP on the Governments Response Committee’s report, 17 June 2021
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Oral evidence transcripts

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29 March 2022
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Witnesses Sue Gray (Second Permanent Secretary at Cabinet Office), and Cabinet Office
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8 March 2022
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Witnesses The Institute for Government, The Law Society of Scotland, and Green Alliance
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25 January 2022
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Witnesses Defra
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Rt Hon James Cleverly MP (Minister for Europe and North America at Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office) (PBC0029)
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UK Devolution Frameworks Division (PBC0028)
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Prof. Katy Hayward (Professor of Political Sociology at Queen’s University Belfast), Lisa Claire Whitten (Research Fellow at Queen's University Belfast), and Dr Milena Komarova (Research Fellow at Queens Univeristy Belfast) (PBC0027)
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Contact us

  • Email: hlcommonframeworks@parliament.uk
  • Phone: 020 7219 8664 (committee staff) | 020 7219 8286 (Press Officer)
  • Address: Common Frameworks Scrutiny Committee, House of Lords, London SW1A 0PW