Question to the Department for International Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, when she will lay the instrument of accession to the Government Procurement Agreement; and if she will make a statement.
The United Kingdom intends to deposit her Instrument of Accession to the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA) with the WTO Director-General on 2nd December 2020. The GPA will then enter into force for the United Kingdom, as an independent party, on 1st January 2021.