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Written Question
Trade Agreements
Monday 14th November 2016

Asked by: Douglas Carswell (Independent - Clacton)

Question to the Department for International Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what discussions he has had with the Secretary-General of the World Trade Organisation on commencing work on trade agreements.

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

In conversations with the Director General of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) my Rt hon Friend the Secretary of State for International Trade has discussed our on-going membership of the WTO and the future of the multilateral trading system. Both agree that the UK has an important role to play in promoting global free trade.