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533332

	registered interest
	date	06/07/2016
	ddp created	06/07/2016 21:31:28
	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
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, if he will estimate the total (a) legal and (b) other costs to the public purse of conducting trade negotiations after the UK has provided notice under Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty of its intention to leave the EU.
	tabling member constituency	Oxford East
	tabling member printed	Mr Andrew Smith
	uin	42100
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/07/2016 answer text <p>Until we leave, the UK will remain a full member of the EU, with all of the rights and obligations. My right hon. Friend the Prime Minister has established the Department for International Trade to promote British trade across the world and ensure the UK takes advantage of the huge opportunities open to us. My right hon. Friend the Prime Minister has also established a Department for Exiting the European Union for overseeing negotiations to leave the EU and establishing the future relationship between the UK and EU.</p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands question first answered 20/07/2016 10:40:42 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
	tabling member	95 label Biography information for Mr Andrew Smith

539724

	registered interest
	date	18/07/2016
	ddp created	18/07/2016 23:23:55
	answering body	Department for International Trade
	answering dept id	202
	answering dept short name	International Trade
	answering dept sort name	International Trade
	hansard heading	Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, how many full-time equivalent officials in (a) his Department and (b) other government departments work in the National Contact Point for the OECD Guidelines; and what the grades are of those officials.
	tabling member constituency	Camberwell and Peckham
	tabling member printed	Ms Harriet Harman
	uin	43211
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2016 answer text <p>(a) The current allocation for staff in the UK National Contact Point is half a Grade 7, one full-time Senior executive officer and one full-time Higher executive officer.</p><p> </p><p>(b) None in other Departments.</p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands question first answered 21/07/2016 16:51:05 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
	tabling member	150 label Biography information for Ms Harriet Harman

539739

	registered interest
	date	18/07/2016
	ddp created	18/07/2016 23:24:09
	answering body	Department for International Trade
	answering dept id	202
	answering dept short name	International Trade
	answering dept sort name	International Trade
	hansard heading	Department for International Trade: Staff
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, how many trade specialists are currently employed by his Department; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Coventry South
	tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
	uin	43019
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2016 answer text <p>There are currently in excess of 50 civil servants in my Department primarily working on trade policy. They are assisted by officials in other Government Departments, notably the Department for Exiting the EU, the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, the Department for International Development and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, as well as by other officials within my Department for whom trade policy is not their primary responsibility.</p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands question first answered 21/07/2016 16:38:38 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
	tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

539745

	registered interest
	date	18/07/2016
	ddp created	18/07/2016 23:24:13
	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: Poverty
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, whether UK trade negotiators will be instructed to consider the risks and opportunities for poverty reduction in the least developed countries during future negotiations of trade deals.
	tabling member constituency	Halifax
	tabling member printed	Holly Lynch
	uin	43100
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2016 answer text <p>The UK Government is committed to ensuring developing countries can reduce poverty through trading opportunities. Trading arrangements that do not involve developing countries can still have an impact on them. Such impacts will be taken into account as the UK develops its international trade policy.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands question first answered 21/07/2016 16:36:25 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
	tabling member	4472 label Biography information for Holly Lynch

539740

	registered interest
	date	18/07/2016
	ddp created	18/07/2016 23:24:10
	answering body	Department for International Trade
	answering dept id	202
	answering dept short name	International Trade
	answering dept sort name	International Trade
	hansard heading	Department for International Trade: Public Expenditure
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what estimate he has made of his Department's total budget in each of the next five years; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Coventry South
	tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
	uin	43018
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2016 answer text <p>The Department for International Trade is currently being established. This requires machinery of government changes which are ongoing.</p><p> </p><p>Parliamentary budget delegations will be amended in due course.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands question first answered 21/07/2016 16:23:18 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
	tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

536102

	registered interest
	date	13/07/2016
	ddp created	13/07/2016 21:50:15
	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
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what estimate his Department has made of the length of time it will take to negotiate trade agreements with the UK's major trading partners outside of the EU when the UK leaves the EU.
	tabling member constituency	Tottenham
	tabling member printed	Mr David Lammy
	uin	42585
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2016 answer text <p>My hon Friend the Prime Minister has established the Department for International Trade to promote British trade across the world and ensure the UK takes advantage of the huge opportunities open to us. The pace of trade negotiations will vary country to country. The Prime Minister has also established a Department for Exiting the European Union for overseeing negotiations to leave the EU and establishing the future relationship between the UK and EU. However, until we leave, the UK will remain a full member of the EU, with all of the rights and obligations.</p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands question first answered 21/07/2016 16:11:32 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
	tabling member	206 label Biography information for Mr David Lammy

539743

	registered interest
	date	18/07/2016
	ddp created	18/07/2016 23:24:12
	answering body	Department for International Trade
	answering dept id	202
	answering dept short name	International Trade
	answering dept sort name	International Trade
	hansard heading	Department for International Trade: Staff
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what estimate he has made of the number of officials that will be employed by his Department in each of the next three years; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Coventry South
	tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
	uin	43143
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2016 answer text <p>The Department for International Trade is currently being established. This requires machinery of government changes which are ongoing; it is too early to say the exact number of officials that will be employed in the new Department. We will inform the House in due course.</p> answering member constituency Wyre Forest answering member printed Mark Garnier question first answered 22/07/2016 13:23:58 answering member 4074 label Biography information for Mark Garnier
	tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

539742

	registered interest
	date	18/07/2016
	ddp created	18/07/2016 23:24:11
	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: Exports
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, how much Scotch whisky was exported from (a) England and (b) Scotland in the last 12 months for which figures are available.
	tabling member constituency	Na h-Eileanan an Iar
	tabling member printed	Angus Brendan MacNeil
	uin	43000
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/07/2016 answer text <p>HMRC special analysis showing the value of Scotch Whisky exports from England and Scotland is set out in the table below. Data are provisional and subject to revision.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="2"><p>Exports of Scotch Whisky (£million)</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><p>April 2015 to March 2016</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>England</p></td><td><p>144</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Scotland</p></td><td><p>3,554</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><p>Source: HMRC special analysis of Regional Trade Statistics database</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Wyre Forest answering member printed Mark Garnier question first answered 25/07/2016 14:27:54 answering member 4074 label Biography information for Mark Garnier
	tabling member	1546 label Biography information for Angus Brendan MacNeil

539744

	registered interest
	date	18/07/2016
	ddp created	18/07/2016 23:24:12
	answering body	Department for International Trade
	answering dept id	202
	answering dept short name	International Trade
	answering dept sort name	International Trade
	hansard heading	Balance of Trade
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what steps he plans to take to reduce the UK's trade deficit.
	tabling member constituency	Leicester South
	tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
	uin	43193
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/07/2016 answer text <p>Since 2010 the Government has succeeded in reducing the trade deficit by £4bn or 9.4% through a number of measures delivered by UKTI such as the Exporting is GREAT campaign. We will continue this work and boost our delivery of assistance to British business through new initiatives such as the Directory of Exporters, due to be formally launched in November, and other measures.</p> answering member constituency Wyre Forest answering member printed Mark Garnier question first answered 25/07/2016 14:22:13 answering member 4074 label Biography information for Mark Garnier
	tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

539741

	registered interest
	date	18/07/2016
	ddp created	18/07/2016 23:24:10
	answering body	Department for International Trade
	answering dept id	202
	answering dept short name	International Trade
	answering dept sort name	International Trade
	hansard heading	Shellfish: Exports
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, how much shellfish was exported from (a) England and (b) Scotland in the last 12 months for which figures are available.
	tabling member constituency	Na h-Eileanan an Iar
	tabling member printed	Angus Brendan MacNeil
	uin	43001
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/07/2016 answer text <p>HMRC special analysis showing the value of shellfish exports from England and Scotland is set out in the table below. Data are provisional and subject to revision.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="2"><p>Exports of shellfish (£million)</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><p>April 2015 to March 2016</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>England</p></td><td><p>191</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Scotland</p></td><td><p>185</p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><p>Source: HMRC special analysis of Regional Trade Statistics database</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Wyre Forest answering member printed Mark Garnier question first answered 25/07/2016 14:20:12 answering member 4074 label Biography information for Mark Garnier
	tabling member	1546 label Biography information for Angus Brendan MacNeil