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Written Question
Free Trade
Thursday 23rd January 2020

Asked by: Gareth Johnson (Conservative - Dartford)

Question to the Department for International Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what steps her Department is taking to promote global free trade.

Answered by Conor Burns

As we leave the EU, we will be a liberalising force for trade in the world. We aim to secure agreements with countries accounting for 80% of UK trade within three years of leaving the EU.

As we take up our independent seat at the WTO we will be a champion of global free trade.

Written Question
Carbon Capture and Storage: Exports
Thursday 2nd February 2017

Asked by: Gareth Johnson (Conservative - Dartford)

Question to the Department for International Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what assessment he has made of the export potential of new carbon capture technology developed at UK universities.

Answered by Greg Hands - Minister of State (Department for Business and Trade)

Export potential for this – and all other technologies in which the UK has a comparative advantage – are assessed annually as part of the Department’s planning processes.