Question to the Department for International Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, pursuant to the Answer of 27 May to Questions 6213 and 6214, whether the modelling for Scenario 2 in the scoping assessments published on 17 June 2020 assumes that there are currently effective tariffs in place on imports of bovine meat and sheep meat from (a) Australia and (b) New Zealand.

The scoping assessments published back in June 2020 for Australia and New Zealand assessed the potential impacts of a deal in advance of negotiations, under various illustrative scenarios.

Modelling for scenario 2 in the Australia scoping assessment assumes that there are currently effective tariffs in place on imports of bovine meat and sheep meat from Australia.

Modelling for scenario 2 in the New Zealand scoping assessment assumes that there are currently no effective tariffs in place on imports of bovine meat and sheep meat from New Zealand, as a result of an adjustment to the modelling detailed in section 10.3.