Question to the Department for Business and Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what her planned timetable is for concluding accession negotiations for the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership.

The UK is continuing to negotiate accession to the Comprehensive and Progressive Trans-Pacific Partnership. Recent discussions have seen the department make considerable progress towards concluding talks, aiming to finish them at the earliest opportunity. The Government is working to ensure that the UK joins on terms that work for British business and are in line with domestic priorities.

Joining CPTPP will offer significant benefits to exporters. It could give tariff free access to up to 99% of UK goods, to export to a market of 500 million people, while reducing barriers to our world leading service firms.