Questions Without Notice from Party Spokespeople

Part of 4. Questions to the Leader of the House and Chief Whip – in the Senedd at 4:12 pm on 11 December 2018.

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Photo of Julie James Julie James Labour 4:12, 11 December 2018

We've been making representations to that effect, and that's a very good example of one of the benefits that the European Union brings—the other one, of course, is roaming right across Europe, which doesn't necessarily happen after Brexit. So, very much as part of our preparedness for it, we are lobbying the UK Government and actually having negotiations with Europe itself about how best to have that interoperability, I believe the actual phrase is—so, how we can, basically, pass those laws into our law. We're very actively pursuing that.

Net neutrality is, actually, very likely to be a subject at the World Trade Organization as well, because it's becoming a big thing across the world. So, we are keeping a weather eye on that, because we have very much benefited from the European Union standards in this regard.