No Deal Brexit in Essex
County Cllr David Kendall raised the following written and verbal question regarding a "No Deal Brexit" at the Full Council meeting at County Hall on 8th October with the Council Leader, Cllr David Finch Question: Having attended the Brexit briefing I remain unclear what the effects of a no-deal Brexit will be for Essex. Can the Leader of the Council please clarify this? Reply: The changes that a no deal Brexit may bring to Essex reflect the national effects.There is uncertainty, but official guidance on the worst case national economic effect is provided in the BoE guidance updated 4th September and on the worst-case disruption in the Yellowhammer document of 2 August published 11 September. We cannot locally provide greater certainty against national uncertainty However we know that Central Government has accelerated plans for no-deal since that date which will act to reduce but not eliminate, the probabilities and scale of impacts and are participating in that response. Locally we are engaging businesses t
