Question to the Department for International Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, pursuant to the Answer of 28 February 2019 to Question 225546 on Biofuels: Import Duties, when she plans to make a public announcement on biofuel tariffs ahead of the UK leaving the EU on the 29 March 2019; (a) when and (b) how she plans to inform representatives of the UK bioethanol industry of the decision on those tariffs; and if she will make it her policy that there will be at least 15 working days between informing representatives of the UK bioethanol industry and making that public announcement.

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