Mr. Aidan Gough:

The Northern Ireland manufacturing industry representative group has calculated that the costs of form filling would be very substantial having regard to the delays. It would be much more than £1 per minute and would amount to hundreds of pounds when all of the administrative costs are taken into account. Some businesses we have worked with do upwards of 100 deliveries a day. If they have to start to fill in forms, it would, conservatively, add costs of close to £750,000 to £1 million. In a small business, that represents an existential threat.