Asked by: Andrew Murrison (Conservative - South West Wiltshire)
Question to the Department for International Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, whether (a) medicinal foods (b) food supplements will be classified as pharmaceuticals for tariff purposes after the UK leaves the EU.
Answered by George Hollingbery
The Government will continue to apply the current classification of goods, as published in the UK Trade Tariff, from Exit day. Medicinal foods and food supplements can be classified as food products or pharmaceuticals, depending on the specific product in question. Further information on the Government’s plans for classification of goods in a ‘no deal’ Brexit scenario can be found in the technical notice ‘Classifying your goods in the UK Trade Tariff if there’s no Brexit deal’.
Asked by: Andrew Murrison (Conservative - South West Wiltshire)
Question to the Department for International Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what recent meetings he has had with representatives from (a) Iceland, (b) Liechtenstein, (c) Norway and (d) Switzerland on trade with EFTA countries.
Answered by Greg Hands
Ministers and officials in the Department for International Trade are working closely with counterparts across a wide range of countries and markets, in order to promote the UK as a great place to do business and with which to trade. We are taking advantage of all the opportunities available to us to ensure that Britain becomes the global leader in free trade once we leave the EU.
Most recently, the Minister for Trade Policy met his counterpart trade minister during a visit to Switzerland. My Rt. Hon Friend the Secretary of State for International Trade has also had a productive discussion with the Norwegian Minister for Trade, Industry and Fisheries.
Asked by: Andrew Murrison (Conservative - South West Wiltshire)
Question to the Department for International Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, how many (a) companies and (b) organisations currently hold strategic export control licences.
Answered by Mark Garnier - Shadow Parliamentary Under Secretary (Work and Pensions)
The number of businesses holding a strategic export licence varies throughout the day, every day and therefore cannot be answered accurately.
The number of applications made over the last 12 months (1 October 2015 – 30 September 2016) is:
18,275 Standard Individual Export Licences (SIELs) and 595 Open Individual Export Licences (OIELs).
The number of licences granted over the same period is 13,782 SIELs and 314 OIELs.
The management information provided for licences granted contains some data that has not yet been published, nor quality assured to the same standards as Official Statistics. Licences may, for example, be amended by the time the data is published as Official Statistics.
The Government publishes Official Statistics (on a quarterly and annual basis) on export licences granted and refused on GOV.UK.