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1718073

	registered interest
	date	14/05/2024
	answering body	Department for Business and Trade
	answering dept id	214
	answering dept short name	Business and Trade
	answering dept sort name	Business and Trade
	hansard heading	Solar Power: China
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether she has made an assessment of the potential implications for her policies of the decision by the US to impose a 50% tariff on Chinese-made solar cells.
	tabling member constituency	Rutland and Melton
	tabling member printed	Alicia Kearns
	uin	26288
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/05/2024 answer text <p>The UK has noted the new tariffs on a series of Chinese goods being imported into the US. The UK does not routinely comment on trade measures taken between other countries.</p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands grouped question UIN 26289 question first answered 20/05/2024 16:21:48 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
	tabling member	4805 label Biography information for Alicia Kearns

1718074

	registered interest
	date	14/05/2024
	answering body	Department for Business and Trade
	answering dept id	214
	answering dept short name	Business and Trade
	answering dept sort name	Business and Trade
	hansard heading	Solar Power: China
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of introducing a 50% tariff on Chinese-made solar cells in the context of US tariff policy.
	tabling member constituency	Rutland and Melton
	tabling member printed	Alicia Kearns
	uin	26289
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/05/2024 answer text <p>The UK has noted the new tariffs on a series of Chinese goods being imported into the US. The UK does not routinely comment on trade measures taken between other countries.</p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands grouped question UIN 26288 question first answered 20/05/2024 16:21:48 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
	tabling member	4805 label Biography information for Alicia Kearns

1717631

	registered interest
	date	13/05/2024
	answering body	Department for Business and Trade
	answering dept id	214
	answering dept short name	Business and Trade
	answering dept sort name	Business and Trade
	hansard heading	Export Credit Guarantees
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, pursuant to the Answer of 13 May 2024 to Question 24406 on Export Credit Guarantees, whether (a) a Minister or (b) an official in her Department has unilaterally proposed a 100% guarantee in advance of negotiations with a company.
	tabling member constituency	North Durham
	tabling member printed	Mr Kevan Jones
	uin	25789
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/05/2024 answer text <p>The Department of Business and Trade has not unilaterally proposed a 100% guarantee to any company.</p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands question first answered 16/05/2024 08:26:42 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
	tabling member	1438 label Biography information for Mr Kevan Jones

1717646

	registered interest
	date	13/05/2024
	answering body	Department for Business and Trade
	answering dept id	214
	answering dept short name	Business and Trade
	answering dept sort name	Business and Trade
	hansard heading	Trade Promotion: North Macedonia
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps she is taking to promote trade between the UK and the Republic of North Macedonia.
	tabling member constituency	Romford
	tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
	uin	25800
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/05/2024 answer text <p>Bilateral trade between the UK and North Macedonia was worth a total of £2.5 billion in the 4 quarters to end of Q4 2023, comprising of £1.7bn of exports and £787 million of imports. North Macedonia is the UK’s largest trading partner in the Western Balkans. The UK’s trade relationship is underpinned by the Partnership, Trade and Cooperation Agreement (PTCA), signed in 2020. The inaugural PTCA Joint Committee met in 2022 and we hope to convene the second version later this year. In September 2023, the UK launched the British-Macedonian Business Chamber, as a symbol of the growing trade &amp; investment partnership.</p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands question first answered 21/05/2024 14:43:52 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
	tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

1717647

	registered interest
	date	13/05/2024
	answering body	Department for Business and Trade
	answering dept id	214
	answering dept short name	Business and Trade
	answering dept sort name	Business and Trade
	hansard heading	Imports: North Macedonia
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if she will publish an itemised table of the primary imports from the Republic of North Macedonia.
	tabling member constituency	Romford
	tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
	uin	25801
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/05/2024 answer text <p>The Department for Business and Trade publish <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/trade-and-investment-factsheets" target="_blank">trade and investment factsheets</a> summarising statistics on trade and investment between the UK and individual overseas partners, including North Macedonia. A table of the top goods imported from North Macedonia are provided on page 6 of the factsheet. More detailed statistics on UK imports from North Macedonia are published by the <a href="https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/nationalaccounts/balanceofpayments/datasets/uktradecountrybycommodityimports" target="_blank">ONS</a>.</p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands question first answered 21/05/2024 14:46:15 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
	tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

1716967

	registered interest
	date	09/05/2024
	answering body	Department for Business and Trade
	answering dept id	214
	answering dept short name	Business and Trade
	answering dept sort name	Business and Trade
	hansard heading	Trade Promotion: Bangladesh
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, on what dates the Trade Envoy for Bangladesh visited that country in each of the last three years.
	tabling member constituency	Hendon
	tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
	uin	25478
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/05/2024 answer text <p>The Prime Minister’s Trade Envoy visited Bangladesh on the following dates in the last three years: 2021 - no visit undertaken; 2022 – 27 March-1 April; 2023 – 8-9 January and 20-23 March.</p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands question first answered 20/05/2024 10:40:18 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
	tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

1716401

	registered interest
	date	08/05/2024
	answering body	Department for Business and Trade
	answering dept id	214
	answering dept short name	Business and Trade
	answering dept sort name	Business and Trade
	hansard heading	Overseas Trade: North Macedonia
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether she has taken recent steps to facilitate bilateral trade with North Macedonia.
	tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
	tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
	uin	25323
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/05/2024 answer text <p>Bilateral trade between the UK and North Macedonia was worth a total of £2.5 billion in the 4 quarters to end of Q4 2023, comprising of £1.7bn of exports and £787 million of imports. North Macedonia is the UK’s largest trading partner in the Western Balkans. The UK’s trade relationship is underpinned by the Partnership, Trade and Cooperation Agreement (PTCA), signed in 2020. The inaugural PTCA Joint Committee met in 2022 and we hope to convene the second version later this year. In September 2023, the UK launched the British-Macedonian Business Chamber, as a symbol of the growing trade &amp; investment partnership.</p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands question first answered 14/05/2024 08:24:31 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
	tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel

1716423

	registered interest
	date	08/05/2024
	answering body	Department for Business and Trade
	answering dept id	214
	answering dept short name	Business and Trade
	answering dept sort name	Business and Trade
	hansard heading	Trade Agreements: Gulf Cooperation Council
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how many chapters of a prospective free trade agreement with the Gulf Cooperation Council have been concluded.
	tabling member constituency	Brighton, Kemptown
	tabling member printed	Lloyd Russell-Moyle
	uin	25307
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/05/2024 answer text <p>Six rounds of negotiations have been successfully concluded as part of negotiations on a free trade agreement with the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC). The Department for Business and Trade regularly engages with the GCC at both Chief Negotiator and ministerial level and is making good progress on agreeing chapters including in areas such as Customs, Technical Barriers to Trade and Small and Medium Sized Enterprises (SMEs). The department cannot comment any further as negotiations are ongoing.</p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands question first answered 14/05/2024 10:14:56 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
	tabling member	4615 label Biography information for Lloyd Russell-Moyle

1716092

	registered interest
	date	07/05/2024
	answering body	Department for Business and Trade
	answering dept id	214
	answering dept short name	Business and Trade
	answering dept sort name	Business and Trade
	hansard heading	Minerals: Northern Ireland
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of the EU Critical Raw Materials Act on levels of trade between Northern Ireland and the (a) rest of the UK and (b) EU.
	tabling member constituency	North West Leicestershire
	tabling member printed	Andrew Bridgen
	uin	24922
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/05/2024 answer text <p>The Government is carefully considering this Regulation and will be publishing an explanatory memorandum shortly, with detail on its potential impact on Northern Ireland.</p><p>Any applicability in Northern Ireland will of course be subject to the important democratic scrutiny mechanisms in the Windsor Framework.</p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands question first answered 14/05/2024 10:24:51 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
	tabling member	4133 label Biography information for Andrew Bridgen

1716094

	registered interest
	date	07/05/2024
	answering body	Department for Business and Trade
	answering dept id	214
	answering dept short name	Business and Trade
	answering dept sort name	Business and Trade
	hansard heading	Nuclear Power: Exports
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps she is taking to support the UK nuclear industry to increase exports.
	tabling member constituency	Fylde
	tabling member printed	Mark Menzies
	uin	24891
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/05/2024 answer text <p>The UK has extensive expertise across the nuclear life cycle, from new build, fuel to decommissioning and waste management.</p><p>The Department recognises the export potential offered by a growing global market and is working closely with other government departments, our overseas network, and industry to offer a full range of support for UK civil nuclear exports across markets including Japan, France, Central Europe and Ukraine.</p><p>This includes UK Export Finance, who can consider a range of options to support overseas sales, including loan guarantees for foreign buyers, working capital, insurance, and bond support products to assist UK suppliers.</p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands question first answered 15/05/2024 16:26:43 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
	tabling member	3998 label Biography information for Mark Menzies