Asked by: Jo Platt (Labour (Co-op) - Leigh and Atherton)
Question to the Department for International Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, whether he has plans to publish proposed trade deals in draft to ensure Parliamentary scrutiny of those deals.
Answered by Greg Hands
The UK remains committed to a transparent, fair, and rules-based approach to international trade and invited views on its approach to future trade policy, including future trade agreements, in the Trade White Paper last year – ‘Preparing for our future UK trade policy’. The Department has undertaken a comprehensive series of engagement activities, to ensure a wide range of stakeholder views were gathered. We published a response on 5 January acknowledging stakeholder views and set out positive next steps for future engagement. The Government is currently in the process of designing its future trade policy, where future trade agreements are concerned.
We will continue to respect the role of Parliament when agreeing the terms of future trade agreements.
Asked by: Jo Platt (Labour (Co-op) - Leigh and Atherton)
Question to the Department for International Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, with reference to paragraph four of Future customs arrangements: a future partnership paper, published by the Government on 15 August 2017, whether his Department has conducted an impact assessment of the two options proposed in that paragraph.
Answered by Greg Hands
I refer the Hon. Member to the answer given by my Hon. Friend the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union on 27 February 2018, UIN: 129107.