Lords committee to take evidence on impact of Brexit on regulation and standards

Witnesses giving evidence on Tuesday 10 January 2017 are:

At 10.40am:

• Professor Guy Poppy, Chief Scientific Adviser, Food Standards Agency and Professor of Ecology, University of Southampton
• Professor Sir Michael Rawlins, Chairman, MHRA (Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency)
• Dr Beth Thompson, Senior Policy Adviser, Wellcome Trust.

At 11.40am:

• Dr Scott Steedman, Director of Standards, British Standards Institution (BSI)
• Dr Martyn Sené, Deputy Chief Executive Officer and Director of Operations, National Physical Laboratory (NPL).

Questions which the witnesses are likely to face include:

• What is the relationship between the UK and the EU in the domain of regulation and standards in your field?
• How do you foresee Brexit influencing the development of regulations and standards within the EU?
• In what ways would you expect the UK to continue to collaborate with the EU and other international bodies on the development and enforcement of regulations in the UK?
• Will the UK need to negotiate fundamentally new agreements with all international partners or can we continue existing arrangements?
• Do you expect Brexit to create new requirements for scientific advice in your field, for example on regulatory harmonisation during the negotiation of trade agreements?

The evidence session will take place in Committee room 4A at 10:40am on Tuesday 10 January 2017 in the House of Lords.