Question to the Department for International Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what recent steps he has taken to improve trading links with the US.

As the UK prepares for a new era outside the EU, we will look to forge even closer trade and commercial ties with the US. American commitment to this goal was reaffirmed during positive meetings I had with the Secretary for Commerce and US Trade Representative in Washington a fortnight ago.

We agreed to hold a joint working group this month which will begin to lay the groundwork for a possible future UK-US free trade agreement.