UK Government documents relating to ‘mapping exercise’ examining North-South cooperation on the island of Ireland published

Committee publishes a UK Government scoping document on North-South cooperation from September 2017

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http://www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z/commons-select/exiting-the-european-union-committee/news-parliament-2017/mapping-exercise-documents-published-17-19/http://www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z/commons-select/exiting-the-european-union-committee/news-parliament-2017/mapping-exercise-documents-published-17-19/
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Thursday, June 20, 2019
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Brexit, Benn family, British MPs, Hilary Benn, Tony Benn, Cabinet Office, Cabinet of the United Kingdom, United Kingdom invocation of Article 50 of the Treaty on European Union, House of Commons of the United Kingdom, Government of the United Kingdom
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  • Letter from Rt Hon David Lidington MP to Hilary Benn MP, dated 18 June 2019
    The document has been provided to the Committee following a disclosure from the Cabinet Office subsequent to a Freedom of Information request, made by a member of the public.
  • In addition to the above-mentioned information, it contains a UK Government paper on North-South cooperation relating to healthcare.
  • Ahead of the publication, on 8 December 2017, of the Joint Report on progress during phase 1 of negotiations under Article 50 TEU on the UKs orderly withdrawal from the EU , areas of North-South cooperation were the subject of a scoping exercise undertaken by the UK Government, Northern Ireland Civil Service, European Commission and Government of Ireland.
  • On 7 December 2018, the Department for Exiting the European Union published a technical explanatory note on the North-South cooperation mapping exercise, including a list of areas of current North-South cooperation both formal and informal.
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