Question to the Department for International Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, pursuant to the Answer of 15 September 2017 to Question 9154, whether he discussed the Bombardier-Boeing dispute with Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross during his visit to the US in July 2017.

We have had Cabinet level engagement with the US Administration and Canadian government. We continue to make efforts alongside the Canadian government to get Boeing into discussions to resolve the case. Ministers across government together with officials have engaged with the US and Canadian administrations and at Bombardier in Canada and Belfast to help in bringing this issue to a solution.