Trade Agreements: Australia

(asked on 8th November 2021) - View Source

Question to the Department for International Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, with reference to the modelling set out in the UK-Australia FTA strategic approach, published on 17 July 2020, what forecast her Department has made of the effect of the UK-Australia trade agreement on total economic output in Northern Ireland.


Answered by
Penny Mordaunt Portrait
Penny Mordaunt
Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons
This question was answered on 15th November 2021

Following the conclusion of negotiations, a full impact assessment will be published prior to scrutiny by Parliament. This will present the results of economic impacts of the agreement, including on UK sectoral output and employment and the potential implications for the UK nations and English regions.

In June 2020 the government published a scoping assessment, which provided a preliminary assessment of the potential long run impacts of an agreement with Australia. This contained potential implications for UK nations and English regions and is available here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/uks-approach-to-negotiating-a-free-trade-agreement-with-australia.

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