Question to the Department for International Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, pursuant to the Answer of 11 October 2017 to Question 106245, if he will place in the Library the minutes of meetings he or his Department's officials attended in July 2017 with counterparts in the US Administration and the Canadian Government on the Bombardier-Boeing dispute.

My Rt Hon Friend the Secretary of State for International Trade and UK Government officials were in close and frequent contact with their American and Canadian counterparts during July 2017. The commercially sensitive nature of these discussions means that we are unable to release the minutes requested.