Asked by: Desmond Swayne (Conservative - New Forest West)
Question to the Department for International Trade:
What plans he has to ensure that the poorest countries in the world are able to take part fairly in global trade.
Answered by Graham Stuart
We believe that the global, rules-based system is the most important protection poorer countries have. We will champion their interests through the WTO, enact a UK trade preferences scheme through the Taxation Cross Border Trade Act and then further improve their access to the UK market after we’ve left the EU.
Asked by: Desmond Swayne (Conservative - New Forest West)
Question to the Department for International Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what assessment he has made of recent trends in the level of international investment in the UK.
Answered by Graham Stuart
The UK retains the top position in Europe across, FDI projects, new jobs and greenfield capital expenditure.
The Department annually publishes its FDI performance as Official Statistics and has published one of the most comprehensive analyses of the economic impact of FDI in the world.
The links to each publication are as follows: