Question to the Department for International Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, whether UK trade agreements with Albania, Canada, Jordan and Mexico are planned to take effect within the first half of 2021.

We have secured trade agreements with 64 countries, plus the EU, covering £889 billion of trade in 2019. Most of these trade agreements entered into effect from 1^st January 2021, when the transition period ended.

Some countries with which we have signed agreements have not been able to bring the agreement into effect or have not been able to do so fully. They are in the process of completing the final necessary steps to allow the agreements to enter into effect fully. This is the case for Canada, Jordan and Mexico.

HM Government signed a Partnership, Trade and Cooperation Agreement with Albania on 5^th February. Albania is currently undertaking the domestic parliamentary processes required to bring the agreement into effect.

We have set out on GOV.UK the signed agreements that entered into effect on 1^st January, and have published advice for those agreements that are not in place fully.