Question to the Department for International Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, if he will publish the agendas and minutes of meetings (a) he and (b) officials of his Department have held with representatives of non-EU governments on trade matters since July 2016.

The Prime Minister has set out a vision for the UK’s future as a truly Global Britain. The Government wants the UK to emerge from this period of change stronger, fairer, more united and more outward-looking than ever before.

Ministers regularly meet counterparts from our trading partners to discuss the opportunities that leaving the EU presents. In the interests of maintaining strong international relations the minutes of these meetings are not released.

Department for International Trade officials in over 100 countries across the world meet their counterparts from their host Governments frequently. The agendas and minutes of these many hundreds of meetings are not held centrally.