Question to the Department for International Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what plans she has to publish a negotiating mandate for an international trade agreement with (a) Turkey, (b) Mexico and (c) Canada.

The Continuity Trade Programme seeks to replicate, as far as possible, the effects of existing trade agreements in which the United Kingdom participates as a member of the EU.

The United Kingdom remains committed to ensuring continuity in our trading relationships with Turkey, Mexico and Canada beyond the end of the transition period. Consistent with the approach taken for all other continuity trade agreements to date, HM Government does not intend to publish negotiating mandates for the continuity discussions with these three countries.