Question to the Department for International Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, if she will provide details her Department holds on the programme and priorities of the World’s Trade Organization’s Trade and Environment Group; and if she will make a statement.

The UK is an active member of the World Trade Organization’s Committee on Trade and Environment, currently chaired by the UK’s ambassador Simon Manley. Through this group, we are enhancing transparency, defending UK policy interests and promoting consensus on best practice alongside other members.

The UK is also participating in ambitious plurilateral groups such as the Dialogue on Plastics Pollution, the Fossil Fuel Subsidy Reform Initiative, and the Trade and Environmentally Sustainability Structured Discussions (TESSD) where we are advocating for collective agreement to remove barriers and lower costs on environmental goods, and find solutions to help mitigate carbon leakage risk.