Asked by: Tulip Siddiq (Labour - Hampstead and Highgate)
Question to the Department for International Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, whether his Department has discussed a potential new trade agreement with the Government of Iran in 2017.
Answered by Mark Garnier - Shadow Parliamentary Under Secretary (Work and Pensions)
There have been no discussions with the Government of Iran in 2017 on a potential new trade agreement.
Asked by: Tulip Siddiq (Labour - Hampstead and Highgate)
Question to the Department for International Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, how much bilateral assistance his Department has provided to the Iranian Government in each year since 2010-11.
Answered by Mark Garnier - Shadow Parliamentary Under Secretary (Work and Pensions)
Since the re-opening of the British Embassy in Tehran in August 2015, the Department for International Trade team in Tehran has been working with UK and Iranian businesses and officials to seek out opportunities for bilateral trade.
Current UK exports of goods and services to Iran, 2010 – 2015 can be found in the ONS Pink Book 2016: https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/nationalaccounts/balanceofpayments/adhocs/006656balanceofpaymentsannualgeographicaldatatables. |
Asked by: Tulip Siddiq (Labour - Hampstead and Highgate)
Question to the Department for International Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, how many and what proportion of people employed by his Department are from other EU countries.
Answered by Mark Garnier - Shadow Parliamentary Under Secretary (Work and Pensions)
All Government Departments are bound by legal requirements concerning the right to work in the UK and in addition, the Civil Service Nationality Rules. Evidence of nationality is checked at the point of recruitment into the Civil Service as part of wider pre-employment checks, but there is no requirement to retain this information beyond the point at which it has served its purpose.