Can I first of all welcome the Cabinet Secretary to his new responsibilities and congratulate him on his promotion?

In relation to Aston Martin, is this not one of the most absurd aspects of project fear? The evidence that was given yesterday by Mark Wilson, the finance director of Aston Martin, that production could stop at Aston Martin if there were no type-approval certificates granted for European cars or British cars after Brexit is not likely to be realised. Aston Martin exports 600 cars a year to the European Union. Germany alone exports to Britain 820,000 cars a year—that's 14 per cent of the entire car production in Germany, a third of all cars sold in the UK, and amounts to €27 billion a year. There were 2.6 million cars registered in the UK in 2015—86 per cent of them produced outside the United Kingdom. It is absurd to predict that the type-approval certification system will come to an absolute stop if there's no deal on the future trade arrangements between Britain and the rest of Europe, because that could, actually, be massively to the advantage of domestic producers, if no foreign cars could be sold in the United Kingdom. This is not a scenario that we need detain us for a single second.