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Are there any more contributions in this area?

Good morning, and a very warm welcome to the eighth meeting in 2024 of the Constitution, Europe, External Affairs and Culture Committee. Agenda item 1 is a decision on taking business in private. Are members content to take items 3 and 4 in private?

Members indicated agreement.

Thanks for clarifying that.

Thank you for that. Finally, I invite Gary Stephenson from Devro to come in.

Yes.

I wish you the best of luck.

Does Dario Riccomini or Paddy Jack want to comment on the border controls issue in particular?

As Paddy Jack does not want to comment, I invite Gary Stephenson to come in.

Gary, did you want to come in again?

I am conscious of the time, so we will have to wrap things up, if everybody is okay with that.

Thank you very much for your evidence. We are not a subject committee, as such, so this type of evidence has been a bit unusual in our inquiry. Normally we take evidence from academics, people at Government level or trade bodies, so it has been really helpful to have an open discussion and hear the challenges being expressed so expertly by you all. I wish you all the very best for your businesses, and thank you for attending.

The committee will now move into private session.

It has all been very helpful. Thank you.

This is a round-table meeting, so I want a free-flowing discussion about the issues that have been raised.

We will come to what you would like to see in a review of the TCA. Gary Stephenson mentioned the border controls that are about to be implemented in the UK. What are your worries about that? Do you foresee that some of the problems that you had in the other direction will happen again and impact business?