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1284055

registered interest
date	04/02/2021
answering body	Department for International Trade
answering dept id	202
answering dept short name	International Trade
answering dept sort name	International Trade
hansard heading	Arms Trade: Myanmar
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what steps she is taking to impose restrictions on the direct and indirect sale of weapons to Myanmar following the military coup in that country.
tabling member constituency	Carmarthen East and Dinefwr
tabling member printed	Jonathan Edwards
uin	149201
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/02/2021 answer text <p>There are sanctions against Myanmar (Burma) already, including an arms embargo and a ban on the export of equipment that might be used for internal repression.</p><p>HM Government will not issue export licences for items prohibited by these sanctions.</p> answering member constituency North East Hampshire answering member printed Mr Ranil Jayawardena question first answered 09/02/2021 17:48:42 answering member 4498 label Biography information for Mr Ranil Jayawardena
tabling member	3943 label Biography information for Jonathan Edwards

1283204

registered interest
date	02/02/2021
answering body	Department for International Trade
answering dept id	202
answering dept short name	International Trade
answering dept sort name	International Trade
hansard heading	Whisky: USA
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what steps she is taking to negotiate the reduction or elimination of tariffs on the export of Northern Irish single malt whiskey to the US.
tabling member constituency	North Antrim
tabling member printed	Ian Paisley
uin	147846
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/02/2021 answer text <p>The UK government is committed to achieving the removal of punitive tariffs impacting UK industries, such as Northern Irish Whiskey Distillers, by de-escalating this dispute.</p><p>The Secretary of State for International Trade will be engaging the Biden administration at the earliest opportunity to find a mutually beneficial and balanced settlement that works for the whole of the UK and to the benefit of UK businesses. We want to de-escalate and resolve the disputes so that we can deepen trading ties with the US and move onto the next phase of our trading relationship.</p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands question first answered 09/02/2021 11:35:42 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
tabling member	4129 label Biography information for Ian Paisley

1282375

registered interest
date	01/02/2021
answering body	Department for International Trade
answering dept id	202
answering dept short name	International Trade
answering dept sort name	International Trade
hansard heading	Generalised System of Preferences: Cambodia
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, pursuant to the Answer of15 October 2020 to Question 101253, on what basis the decision was taken to derogate from the previously stated replication of the EU’s Generalised Scheme of Preferences system with respect to the new preferences afforded to Cambodia.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	146815
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/02/2021 answer text <p>The United Kingdom has concerns about human rights in Cambodia and continues to raise these with the Cambodian government at every opportunity.</p><p>We continue to monitor the situation in Cambodia and consider if it is appropriate to suspend preferences in line with the provisions of our Generalised Scheme of Preferences (GSP) scheme, taking into account the human rights situation as well as the economic impact of COVID-19 and the impact on vulnerable people, including female garment factory workers.</p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands grouped question UIN 146816 146818 question first answered 09/02/2021 11:31:21 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

1282376

registered interest
date	01/02/2021
answering body	Department for International Trade
answering dept id	202
answering dept short name	International Trade
answering dept sort name	International Trade
hansard heading	Human Rights: Cambodia
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what evidence the Government used to assess human rights concerns in Cambodia when determining that country's full access to the least developed countries framework.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	146816
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/02/2021 answer text <p>The United Kingdom has concerns about human rights in Cambodia and continues to raise these with the Cambodian government at every opportunity.</p><p>We continue to monitor the situation in Cambodia and consider if it is appropriate to suspend preferences in line with the provisions of our Generalised Scheme of Preferences (GSP) scheme, taking into account the human rights situation as well as the economic impact of COVID-19 and the impact on vulnerable people, including female garment factory workers.</p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands grouped question UIN 146815 146818 question first answered 09/02/2021 11:31:21 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

1282377

registered interest
date	01/02/2021
answering body	Department for International Trade
answering dept id	202
answering dept short name	International Trade
answering dept sort name	International Trade
hansard heading	Human Rights: Cambodia
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, on what occasions she has raised human rights concerns with representatives from the Cambodian Government since the implementation of the least developed countries framework.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	146817
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/02/2021 answer text <p>The United Kingdom continues to raise its concerns about human rights with the Cambodian government at every opportunity. For example, when explaining the UK’s approach on trade preferences to Cambodia, Her Majesty’s Ambassador to Cambodia expressed our concerns about the human rights situation to Cambodia’s Deputy Prime Minister in December 2020.</p><p>At UN Human Rights Council sessions in late 2019 and June 2020, the UK also publicly urged the Cambodian authorities to lift restrictions on political debate and to create the conditions for a proper functioning democracy. The United Kingdom continues to seek opportunities to increase our engagement with Cambodia directly on these issues.</p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands question first answered 09/02/2021 11:09:20 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

1282378

registered interest
date	01/02/2021
answering body	Department for International Trade
answering dept id	202
answering dept short name	International Trade
answering dept sort name	International Trade
hansard heading	Conditions of Employment and Human Rights: Cambodia
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of the Cambodian Government's implementation of the core human and labour rights UN/ILO conventions necessary to qualify for the least developed countries framework.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	146818
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/02/2021 answer text <p>The United Kingdom has concerns about human rights in Cambodia and continues to raise these with the Cambodian government at every opportunity.</p><p>We continue to monitor the situation in Cambodia and consider if it is appropriate to suspend preferences in line with the provisions of our Generalised Scheme of Preferences (GSP) scheme, taking into account the human rights situation as well as the economic impact of COVID-19 and the impact on vulnerable people, including female garment factory workers.</p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands grouped question UIN 146815 146816 question first answered 09/02/2021 11:31:21 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

1282379

registered interest
date	01/02/2021
answering body	Department for International Trade
answering dept id	202
answering dept short name	International Trade
answering dept sort name	International Trade
hansard heading	Developing Countries: Cambodia
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, for what reasons the decision to extend least developed countries framework preferences to Cambodia was not presented to Parliament.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	146819
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/02/2021 answer text <p>The approach on trade preferences and Cambodia was set out to the Chair of the International Trade Committee in a letter dated 21 January 2021.</p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands question first answered 09/02/2021 11:14:20 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

1282391

registered interest
date	01/02/2021
answering body	Department for International Trade
answering dept id	202
answering dept short name	International Trade
answering dept sort name	International Trade
hansard heading	Trade Agreements: Corruption
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what plans she has to include anti-corruption provisions in future trade deals.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
tabling member printed	Dan Carden
uin	147026
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/02/2021 answer text <p>As detailed in our ‘Strategic Approach’ publications, we are aiming to secure provisions in free trade agreements with the US, Australia and New Zealand that address the trade-distorting effects of corruption on global trade and fair competition to help maintain the United Kingdom’s high standards in this area.</p><p>The United Kingdom-Japan Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement includes a new provision covering anti-corruption, which signals the United Kingdom and Japan’s shared ambition to combat the distorting effects of corruption on trade.</p> answering member constituency North East Hampshire answering member printed Mr Ranil Jayawardena question first answered 09/02/2021 10:47:23 answering member 4498 label Biography information for Mr Ranil Jayawardena
tabling member	4651 label Biography information for Dan Carden

1282471

registered interest
date	01/02/2021
answering body	Department for International Trade
answering dept id	202
answering dept short name	International Trade
answering dept sort name	International Trade
hansard heading	Iron and Steel: UK Trade with EU
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, whether UK steel producers face any tariffs or quotas to export steel into the EU market.
tabling member constituency	Slough
tabling member printed	Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi
uin	147012
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/02/2021 answer text <p>The Department for International Trade and the Department for Business, Energy &amp; Industrial Strategy worked closely with the UK steel sector to ensure the European Commission provides UK steel exports into the EU with tariff-free quota allocations from 1 Jan 2021.</p><p>As a result, HM Government has successfully secured from the EU country-specific allocations for some steel products within the Tariff Rate Quotas (by which the EU imposes its steel safeguard measures) to enable UK companies to trade tariff-free into the EU. These tariff-free allocations came into operation on 1 January 2021.</p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands question first answered 09/02/2021 10:56:25 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
tabling member	4638 label Biography information for Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi

1282476

registered interest
date	01/02/2021
answering body	Department for International Trade
answering dept id	202
answering dept short name	International Trade
answering dept sort name	International Trade
hansard heading	Trade Agreements: Climate Change
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that (a) trade deals which include trade on food and drink and (b) other trade deals support the UK's domestic and international climate commitments.
tabling member constituency	Slough
tabling member printed	Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi
uin	147016
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/02/2021 answer text <p>Our manifesto is clear that in all our trade negotiations we will maintain our high environmental protection standards, which includes clean growth and climate change objectives, animal welfare and food standards.</p><p> </p><p>To inform trade deals and feed into all our negotiations, the Government has run a series of public consultations with the food and drink industry and has established key fora for industry stakeholders such as the Trade and Agriculture Commission and Trade Advisory Groups. As negotiations progress, we will bring together the best evidence from across Government, insight from external stakeholders and a range of data and analytical tools.</p><p> </p><p>Our outline approaches to free trade agreements (FTAs) with the US, Japan, New Zealand, and Australia, have committed to securing provisions that will help trade in low carbon goods and services, support research and development, innovation in green sectors, and maintain our right to regulate in pursuit of decarbonisation. We will continue to pursue a range of mechanisms in the design of future trade policy, both bilateral and multilateral, working with partner nations to tackle climate change.</p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands question first answered 09/02/2021 11:01:55 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
tabling member	4638 label Biography information for Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi