Trade Agreements

(asked on 30th June 2016) - View Source

Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what assessment his Department has made of the effect of the outcome of the EU referendum on the Government's ability to negotiate trade agreements.


Answered by
Anna Soubry Portrait
Anna Soubry
This question was answered on 5th July 2016

The Cabinet Office has established a new unit to oversee arrangements for the UK’s exit from the EU, after we have triggered Article 50. Until then, the UK remains a full member of the EU. The Government is reviewing trade policy, although the direction of future UK trade policy would be a matter for the new administration to consider once a new Prime Minister has been appointed.

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