Asked by: Sarah Olney (Liberal Democrat - Richmond Park)
Question to the Department for International Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, with reference to the Government’s assessment that Australian imports of beef will primarily displace EU imports as a result of the new free trade agreement, if she will publish results of research undertaken to assess the resultant impact on transport-related carbon emissions.
Answered by Penny Mordaunt
This is publicly available information: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/uk-australia-fta-impact-assessment.
Asked by: Sarah Olney (Liberal Democrat - Richmond Park)
Question to the Department for International Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, with reference to the Government’s prediction that Australian imports of beef will primarily displace EU imports as a result of the new free trade agreement, whether her Department has assessed the resultant impact on transport-related carbon emissions.
Answered by Penny Mordaunt
This is publicly available information: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/uk-australia-fta-impact-assessment.
Asked by: Sarah Olney (Liberal Democrat - Richmond Park)
Question to the Department for International Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, how her Department will track the value of services sold to Australia under the UK-Australia Free Trade Agreement (FTA); and how it will assess whether that trade of services would not have occurred without a FTA.
Answered by Penny Mordaunt
The Department has committed to conducting and publishing a monitoring report two years after entry into force of the UK-Australia FTA, and every two years thereafter.
This will monitor the implementation of the FTA by measuring the evolution of trade flows and utilisation of the agreement. It will also discuss, where possible, the extent to which short-term changes in trade flows can be attributed to an FTA itself rather than wider factors.
The Department has also committed to publishing an evaluation report five years after entry in to force. This will analyse a broad range of impacts, including those relating to trade in services.
Asked by: Sarah Olney (Liberal Democrat - Richmond Park)
Question to the Department for International Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what estimate her Department has made of the impact on UK GDP of goods traded under the UK-Australia Free Trade Agreement over the next (a) five and (b) 10 years.
Answered by Penny Mordaunt
Our impact assessment shows that the UK-Australia FTA could increase trade with Australia by around 53% and boost the economy by around £2.3 billion (when compared to projected levels of GDP in 2035). The modelling in our impact assessment assesses the long-run impacts, typically assumed to be around 15 years in the future.
Asked by: Sarah Olney (Liberal Democrat - Richmond Park)
Question to the Department for International Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, which clauses of the UK-Australia Free Trade Agreement require parliamentary approval.
Answered by Penny Mordaunt
Parliament has a statutory scrutiny role for treaties (including Free Trade Agreements (FTAs)), under the Constitutional Reform and Governance Act (CRaG) 2010.
Parliament will also be required to approve any primary and secondary legislation needed to implement the UK-Australia FTA. As per the draft explanatory memorandum for the agreement the need for primary legislation has been identified in order to implement the Procurement Chapter of the Treaty. Secondary legislation will be required for provisions of the Intellectual Property chapter. The Government will also implement changes to tariffs under the Taxation (Cross-border Trade) Act 2018.
Asked by: Sarah Olney (Liberal Democrat - Richmond Park)
Question to the Department for International Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, how much his Department has spent on advertising the Export Support Service to British businesses.
Answered by Mike Freer
Between 1st October 2021, the date Export Support Service was launched, and Friday 17th December 2021, the Department has incurred costs of £113,705 excluding VAT on Export Support Service advertising to businesses across the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
Asked by: Sarah Olney (Liberal Democrat - Richmond Park)
Question to the Department for International Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, how many of her Department's (a) laptops, (b) mobile phones, (c) memory sticks and (d) external hard drives have been lost or stolen in each of the last five years.
Answered by Mike Freer
The number of laptops and mobile phones that were lost and stole in the last 4 years are below:
| Laptop | Mobile Phone | ||
| Lost | Stolen | Lost | Stolen |
2018 | 8 | 4 | 19 | 7 |
2019 | 9 | 16 | 73 | 17 |
2020 | 4 | 5 | 44 | 6 |
2021 | 5 | 5 | 38 | 3 |
These numbers cover the End User Compute managed service project for the Department for International Trade which started in February 2018 so records prior to that are not available. We have no record of any lost or stolen memory stick or external hard drives.
Asked by: Sarah Olney (Liberal Democrat - Richmond Park)
Question to the Department for International Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, whether her Department has a policy on the level of violence within a country that would result in the UK Government not (a) entering or (b) continuing negotiations on a potential trade deal.
Answered by Ranil Jayawardena
More trade need not come at the expense of our values. We will continue to take a balanced and proportionate approach with international trading partners.