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1279827

registered interest
date	25/01/2021
answering body	Department for International Trade
answering dept id	202
answering dept short name	International Trade
answering dept sort name	International Trade
hansard heading	UK Trade with EU: Greenland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, if she will make it her policy to negotiate tariff-free access for products imported from Greenland.
tabling member constituency	Na h-Eileanan an Iar
tabling member printed	Angus Brendan MacNeil
uin	142845
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/01/2021 answer text <p>The UK has announced a number of tariff suspensions and Autonomous Tariff Quotas as part of our independent global tariff regime to help ensure continuity of trade, including with Greenland. We welcome continued engagement with Greenland and are considering options to ensure a prosperous trading relationship in the future.</p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands question first answered 28/01/2021 16:55:49 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
tabling member	1546 label Biography information for Angus Brendan MacNeil

1280000

registered interest
date	25/01/2021
answering body	Department for International Trade
answering dept id	202
answering dept short name	International Trade
answering dept sort name	International Trade
hansard heading	Coronavirus: Vaccination
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what discussions she has had with the World Trade Organisation on the development of intellectual property waiver agreements to facilitate the mass production of coronavirus vaccines.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow North
tabling member printed	Patrick Grady
uin	142978
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/01/2021 answer text <p>The UK has engaged regularly in debates at the World Trade Organisation’s Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) Council and other international institutions to promote affordable and equitable global access to COVID-19 vaccines, including in developing countries. As part of this, the UK has encouraged evidence-based discussions between WTO members to find real solutions to the issues at hand within the multilateral intellectual property framework.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands question first answered 28/01/2021 11:42:22 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
tabling member	4432 label Biography information for Patrick Grady

1280024

registered interest
date	25/01/2021
answering body	Department for International Trade
answering dept id	202
answering dept short name	International Trade
answering dept sort name	International Trade
hansard heading	Coronavirus: TRIPS Agreement
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what the Government’s position is on the proposed WTO Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights waiver in response to the covid-19 pandemic and allowing countries to use it in their domestic context.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	143002
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/02/2021 answer text <p>I refer the Hon. Member for York Central to the answer I gave to the Hon. Member for North East Fife on 25 November 2020, UIN: <a href="https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2020-11-16/115822" target="_blank">115822</a>.</p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands question first answered 01/02/2021 13:34:51 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1280108

registered interest
date	25/01/2021
answering body	Department for International Trade
answering dept id	202
answering dept short name	International Trade
answering dept sort name	International Trade
hansard heading	Department for International Trade: Expenditure
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, with reference to her Department's monthly transparency publications on expenditure over £25,000, where the following payments made to Linklaters LLP are recorded, as set out in Linklaters' filings under the United States Foreign Agents Registration Act: (a) $294,935.44 on 6 July 2020, (b) $65,965.67 on 12 August 2020 and (c) $51,439.05 on 21 August 2020.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	142838
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2021 answer text <p>Due to an administrative error, these transactions were not included in the Department’s regular monthly transparency publications on expenditure over £25,000. The Department is currently investigating this error and will correct any omissions in the published data as soon as possible.</p><p> </p><p>In accordance with the Department for International Trade’s obligations under section 5 of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015, an Award Notice for US Trade Legal Support contract was published to the Contracts Finder website on 2nd of March 2020. This can be found at <a href="https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/notice/926103bc-59ab-426c-bc15-44756efad7b2" target="_blank">https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/notice/926103bc-59ab-426c-bc15-44756efad7b2</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Obtaining expert legal advice to negotiate trade deals of this size and importance is standard practice. UK-US negotiations have proceeded at an impressive pace, in part due to the internal and external expertise we have in place.</p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands question first answered 29/01/2021 14:14:35 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands previous answer version 78240 answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

1280109

registered interest
date	25/01/2021
answering body	Department for International Trade
answering dept id	202
answering dept short name	International Trade
answering dept sort name	International Trade
hansard heading	Department for International Trade: Electronic Purchasing Card Solution
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, with reference to her Department's publication of spending over £500 using an electronic purchasing card in February 2020, how many of the (a) attendees at the dinner at Miller and Carter on 11 February 2020 and (b) people who were provided with hotel accommodation from 5 to 10 February 2020 were (i) not employees of HM Government and (ii) overseas nationals.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	142839
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/02/2021 answer text <p>(a) (i) Of the attendees, 26 were not employees of HM Government.</p><p>No Ministers or Special Advisers were present at the dinner.</p><p> </p><p>(ii) Of the attendees, 6 were overseas nationals. The Department does not usually check the nationality of participants for this sort of activity, so it is not clear whether any of the representatives from UK based companies were overseas nationals.</p><p> </p><p>(b) No one was provided with hotel accommodation between 5 to 10 February 2020.</p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands question first answered 03/02/2021 17:39:09 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands previous answer version 78241 answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

1280110

registered interest
date	25/01/2021
answering body	Department for International Trade
answering dept id	202
answering dept short name	International Trade
answering dept sort name	International Trade
hansard heading	Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, if she will publish the London School of Economics research her Department funded from 6 April 2020 to 30 September 2020 on the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership and the potential effect on UK trade and businesses of the UK joining it.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	142840
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/01/2021 answer text <p>Accession to the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) continues to be a priority for the government and a key part of our trade negotiations programme. We aim to make a formal notification of our intent to accede imminently. Before we start any negotiations to accede to CPTPP we will publish our outline approach to negotiations, consultation response, and scoping assessment. Our outline approach and scoping assessment will be informed by the evidence we have collected, including through our consultation and the research completed by the London School of Economics (LSE). We do not currently plan to publish specific pieces of research.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands question first answered 28/01/2021 11:39:02 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

1278635

registered interest
date	20/01/2021
answering body	Department for International Trade
answering dept id	202
answering dept short name	International Trade
answering dept sort name	International Trade
hansard heading	Africa Investment Conference
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, whether any Official Development Assistance was used to fund the hosting of the Africa Investment Conference.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Edgbaston
tabling member printed	Preet Kaur Gill
uin	140904
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/01/2021 answer text <p>The Africa Investment Conference was funded from the Department for International Trade (DIT) Africa core budget, which excludes Official Development Assistance.</p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands question first answered 26/01/2021 13:08:32 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands previous answer version 76949 answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
tabling member	4603 label Biography information for Preet Kaur Gill

1277764

registered interest
date	18/01/2021
answering body	Department for International Trade
answering dept id	202
answering dept short name	International Trade
answering dept sort name	International Trade
hansard heading	Department for International Trade: Databases
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, how many information gateways there are in operation in her Department; and how those gateways are managed and monitored.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
uin	138970
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/01/2021 answer text <p>The Department for International Trade (DIT) has a 2 key information gateways in place. One with the HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) and one with the Office for National Statistics (ONS).</p><p>DIT has a legal gateway to receive and access HMRC data via a Memorandum of Understanding. This has been granted under sections 18 of the Commissioner for Revenue and Customs Act 2005 and section 25 of the Taxation (Crossborder Trade) Act 2018. This gives DIT access to HMRC data including (but not limited to) Customs Declarations data with Director level sign-off for the monitoring and investigation of unfair trade. Access is limited to colleagues in the Trade Remedies Investigations Directorate that provide digital and operational support to the directorate. The movement, use and destruction of the data must be in line with HM Government’s Security Policy Framework.</p><p>The Trade (Disclosure of Information) Act 2022 underwent Royal Assent in December 2020. The Act includes a data sharing clause that allows DIT (and other departments) the opportunity to request data held by HMRC for the purposes of trade. We are currently working closely with HMRC to agree what data can be shared, how it will be shared and held safely on DIT systems and agree protocols on data usage.</p><p>DIT also has 4 Data Access Agreements in place with the ONS. This gives access to: the Inter-Departmental Business Register, the Labour Force Survey, the Annual Population Survey and Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings to approved individuals in this agreement for the purposes specified within the agreements. Access is restricted to approved individuals via an agreed secure analytical environment and managed by the DIT Microdata team. Records are kept of users and their access arrangements as well as the work that they are undertaking and outputs produced. The processing of these data must be for statistical purposes and in accordance with Data Protection Legislation including the Data Protection Act (1998) and the Statistics and Registration Service Act (2007). All outputs must meet the criteria and Principles established in the Code of Practice for Official Statistics set out by the UK Statistics Authority (UKSA).</p><p>Finally, over the summer DIT supported HMRC and other departments with engagement with businesses for the end of transition, with a Memorandum of Understanding to cover data sharing. This included using data provided by HMRC, the legal basis for which was Commissioners for Revenue and Customs Act Section 18(2) with trader consent. This work is now complete.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands question first answered 26/01/2021 13:20:54 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

1276489

registered interest
date	14/01/2021
answering body	Department for International Trade
answering dept id	202
answering dept short name	International Trade
answering dept sort name	International Trade
hansard heading	Business: North East
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What assessment she has made of the effect of the UK-EU Trade and Cooperation Agreement on businesses in North East England that trade internationally.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne North
tabling member printed	Catherine McKinnell
uin	910767
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/01/2021 answer text <p>The Trade and Cooperation Agreement is the first free trade agreement the EU has reached based on zero tariffs and quotas and is fantastic news for the North East. The Trade and Cooperation Agreement includes Rules of Origin that frequently exceed what the EU has previously agreed. For example, innovative rules to support trade in electric vehicles will benefit our world-leading car manufacturers including in the North East.</p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands question first answered 14/01/2021 12:40:02 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
tabling member	4125 label Biography information for Catherine McKinnell

1276699

registered interest
date	14/01/2021
answering body	Department for International Trade
answering dept id	202
answering dept short name	International Trade
answering dept sort name	International Trade
hansard heading	Imports: VAT
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what discussions she has had with HMRC to simplify the application of VAT charges on imported goods.
tabling member constituency	Arfon
tabling member printed	Hywel Williams
uin	137887
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/01/2021 answer text <p>HM Revenue &amp; Customs (HMRC), HM Treasury and the Department for International Trade work closely together to ensure the interests of traders are taken into account in developing HM Government’s policies on Value Added Tax (VAT) and helping businesses understand the policies.</p><p> </p><p>Following the end of the transition period, businesses can account for import VAT on goods from European Union (EU) and non-EU countries through their periodic VAT returns, helping with their cash flow. Changes to other VAT rules on the import of goods have been made to address non-compliance and ensure UK high street businesses are not disadvantaged by competition from overseas businesses bringing in VAT-free imports.</p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands question first answered 20/01/2021 16:01:29 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
tabling member	1397 label Biography information for Hywel Williams