The Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee publishes
its Fifth Report of Session 2017-19, The impact of
Brexit on the automotive sector, at 00.01 on
Thursday 1 March 2018.
The report examines the impact of Brexit on the automotive
sector, looking at areas such as the impact of tariff and
non-tariff barriers, the EU regulatory framework, and trade
opportunities post-Brexit.
Embargoed electronic copies of the report will be available to
Government departments, oral evidence witnesses, and the media
from the morning of Wednesday 28
February. If you are in receipt of this email you
will automatically receive the embargoed news release and report
on Wednesday morning.
On 14 November 2017, the BEIS Committee held an evidence session
including witnesses from the Society of Motor Manufacturers and
Traders (SMMT), Honda, Aston Martin and major suppliers such as
GKN. Witnesses: Mike Hawes, Chief Executive, Society of Motor
Manufacturers and Traders, John Kingston, General Manager
Corporate Communications, Honda Motor Europe, , Chief Finance Officer,
Aston Martin, , Director of Group
External Relations, GKN plc, Dermot Sterne, Chief Executive,
Applied Component Technologies, Professor David Bailey, Aston
University.
The transcript of the session on is available here
The written evidence submissions for the
Committee’s Brexit automotives inquiry are also available to
view here [click ‘view
all’ to see the fifteen evidence submissions from SMMT, Honda,
Vauxhall, Ford, Unite the Union, the TUC and others).
This is the second in a series of reports the BEIS Committee are
publishing on the impact of leaving the European Union on
specific sectors. The Committee will be producing future Brexit
reports on the aerospace, processed food and drink sector and the
pharmaceuticals sector.
