Trade Agreements
(asked on 23rd November 2017) - View Source
Question to the Department for International Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what estimates his Department has made of changes in staff levels needed to negotiate trade deals after the UK leaves the EU.
This question was answered on 28th November 2017
The Department is already increasing staff levels to support future trade negotiations.
Since July 2016 our Trade Policy Group has grown significantly from 45 to around 400 today. The Group includes lawyers, analysts, trade policy and country specialists drawn from across all relevant Government departments that will be involved in developing policy for and negotiating trade deals.