Question to the Department for International Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, whether her Department has commissioned public opinion polling on attitudes and views on a potential free trade agreement with the Gulf Co-operation council.

The Department has commissioned research on public attitudes towards trade with the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC). The regular Public Attitudes to Trade Tracker asks the public about awareness of the GCC, and support for entering formal trade talks with the bloc, in some waves of the survey. Findings are published regularly at the collections page: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/public-attitudes-to-trade-tracker . The Department also carries out research for internal use relevant to ongoing negotiations. Details of these are not released due to negotiation sensitivities.