Question to the Department for International Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, pursuant to the Answer of 1 December 2017 to Question 115520 on Trade Remedies: Arbitration, what assessment his Department has made of the number of staff required to adequately resource the trade remedies investigating authority.

We are committed to creating a trade remedies authority that has the appropriate number of people, skills and infrastructure to investigate trade remedies cases and assess injury efficiently and effectively.

To inform this process we have reviewed the structure and resources of several other international systems. We have also worked closely with counterparts in other government departments and existing arms-length bodies which perform similar investigative functions.