Question to the Department for International Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what discussions he had with Cabinet colleagues on the timetable for parliamentary scrutiny of the Trade Remedies (Increase in Imports Causing Serious Injury to UK Producers) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019.

The Government has brought forward legislation under the Taxation (Cross-border Trade) Act 2018 to establish the UK’s trade remedies system in the event that we leave the EU without a withdrawal agreement.

To give business the necessary confidence they will continue to receive protection against injury from unfair trade or unforeseen surges in imports, the provisions were commenced the day after they were laid. However, Parliamentary scrutiny procedures still apply. Cabinet clearance applied to this legislation in the usual way.