---

Cabinet Committees

My Right Honourable friend the Minister for the Cabinet Office and Paymaster General(Ben Gummer) has made the following Written Ministerial Statement.

Today the Government is publishing an updated list of Cabinet Committees and Implementation Taskforces. As part of the changes, the Prime Minister will chair two new Sub-Committees of the European Union Exit and Trade Committee.

The two new Sub-Committees are as follows:

• European Union Exit and Trade (Negotiations) Sub-Committee: to oversee the negotiations on the UK’s withdrawal from, and future relationship with, the European Union.

• European Union Exit and Trade (International Trade) Sub-Committee: to focus on issues relating to the UK’s trading arrangements with non-European Union countries.

Copies of the associated documents will be placed in the Library of House and published on Gov.uk.