UK Brexit secretary David Davis has confirmed that his government has not conducted sector-by-sector studies on the impact of leaving the EU, telling a parliamentary committee that such assessments would “not necessarily be informative”. However he reiterated that publishing a series of sectoral impact studies would undermine the UK’s negotiating position and potentially reveal sensitive information. Mr Benn said it “sounds very clear to me” from other earlier comments by Mr Davis that sectoral studies did exist. Impact assessmentOn Wednesday he stressed that ‘impact assessment’ is a technical term. People seem to assume an impact assessment consists of a quantitative forecast.

Source: The Irish Times December 06, 2017 10:41 UTC