Question to the Department for International Development:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps his Department is taking to promote trade between the UK and least developed countries.

The UK is a proud advocate of supporting developing countries trade their way out of poverty. The Government has introduced the Taxation (Cross-Border Trade) Bill which will enable us to create a UK trade preference scheme to maintain existing tariff free access to the UK for Least Developed Countries as we leave the EU.