Question to the Department for International Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what assessment the Government has made of which WTO rules and practices pertain to the UK (a) in the UK's own right and (b) through the UK's membership of the EU.

The United Kingdom is a founding member of the World Trade Organization (WTO). As such, the UK is bound by the rights and obligations that apply to all WTO Members. That will continue unchanged as we leave the EU. There are a number of WTO plurilateral agreements where obligations only apply to a subset of the WTO Membership. We will consider membership of those agreements on a case by case basis. We will do so in line with our overall ambition to replicate as far as possible our current obligations and to minimise disruption to global trade.