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Global Navigation Satellite Systems

Question for Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

UIN 122184, tabled on 11 January 2018

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether the UK leaving the EU will affect the contracts to produce the payloads for the European Union Global Navigation satellite system in the UK.

Answered on

16 January 2018

The Joint Report issued by the UK and EU negotiating teams on 8 December was clear that UK entities would be able to continue to participate in all EU programmes, including the space programmes, financed by the current Multiannual Financial Framework, which ends in 2020. Clearly there will be further discussions on exactly what this means for the individual programmes during Phase 2 of negotiations, but the principle set out in the report is that eligibility of entities located in the UK will be unaffected by the UK’s withdrawal from the EU.

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Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
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