Question to the Department for International Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what estimate he has made on the number of countries which solely rely on World Trade Organisation schedules.

All World Trade Organisation Members have at least one preferential trade agreement in place. As set out in the Department for International Trade’s 9 October policy paper, Preparing for our future UK trade policy (https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/preparing-for-our-future-uk-trade-policy), the Government will seek to transition all existing EU trade agreements and other EU preferential arrangements, as we prepare to leave the EU.