Question to the Department for International Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what progress her Department has made in securing UK membership of the CPTPP.
On 28th September, the UK took the next step on the pathway to membership of this important and growing trading group, commencing talks with officials from all members of the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP).
We have an ambitious timeline for UK accession to CPTPP and hope we will be able to have concluded negotiations by the end of 2022.