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539191

registered interest
date	18/07/2016
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	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they plan to establish a scheme to retrain as trade negotiators people with experience of high level intergovernmental and global institutional practice.
tabling member printed	Lord Myners
uin	HL1267
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/07/2016 answer text <p>My right hon. Friend the Prime Minister has created the Department for International Trade, which is responsible for promoting British trade across the world and ensuring the UK takes advantage of the huge opportunities open to us. We are building up our trade policy capability. ​The Department has begun a process to recruit and train staff to work on the UK’s trade policy. We will adapt the resource devoted to trade policy in line with future demands.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Price question first answered 25/07/2016 14:12:13 answering member 4570 label Biography information for Lord Price
tabling member	3869 label Biography information for Lord Myners

539724

registered interest
date	18/07/2016
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
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

539741

registered interest
date	18/07/2016
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

539743

registered interest
date	18/07/2016
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

539745

registered interest
date	18/07/2016
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

539747

registered interest
date	18/07/2016
answering body	Department for International Trade
answering dept id	202
answering dept short name	International Trade
answering dept sort name	International Trade
hansard heading	Exports
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, whether he plans to maintain the target set by the last Government to raise the level of British exports to £1 trillion by 2020.
tabling member constituency	Leicester South
tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
uin	43108
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2016 answer text <p>The Government is continuing to drive progress against its manifesto commitments of having 100,000 more UK companies exporting in 2020 than in 2010 and reaching £1 trillion exports in 2020. To support these efforts, the Prime Minister created the Department for International Trade, which will develop, coordinate and deliver trade and investment policy to promote UK business across the globe.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Wyre Forest answering member printed Mark Garnier question first answered 21/07/2016 16:49:20 answering member 4074 label Biography information for Mark Garnier
tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

535902

registered interest
date	13/07/2016
answering body	Department for International Trade
answering dept id	202
answering dept short name	International Trade
answering dept sort name	International Trade
hansard heading	Overseas Trade
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government, in the light of the potential effects on investment of uncertainty around issues of future market access, whether they plan to commit to (1) extending bilaterally the duty- and quota-free access that the least developed countries have had to the UK market since 2001 once the UK’s exit from the EU is completed; (2) honouring the duty- and quota-free market access granted to Caribbean countries since 2008 until new bilateral trade agreements have been concluded; and (3) unilaterally extending the duty- and quota-free access granted to sub-Saharan countries under the transitional arrangements established since 2008 until new bilateral trade agreements have been concluded.
tabling member printed	Lord Chidgey
uin	HL1181
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/07/2016 answer text <p>While the UK is still a member of the EU, all rights and obligations will apply. There will be no initial change in the way we trade with developing countries. The new Department for International Trade will work with the Department for International Development on the structure and access to the UK’s markets to be offered to developing countries. This will reflect the UK’s longstanding support for Least Developed Countries and other developing country trading partners including through preferential trade agreements. This recognises that trade can be an effective way of growing economies and reducing poverty internationally.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Price question first answered 25/07/2016 14:11:15 answering member 4570 label Biography information for Lord Price
tabling member	50 label Biography information for Lord Chidgey

535903

registered interest
date	13/07/2016
answering body	Department for International Trade
answering dept id	202
answering dept short name	International Trade
answering dept sort name	International Trade
hansard heading	Agricultural Products: ACP Countries
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they plan to continue to recognise EU sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) and food safety approvals for imports of agricultural products from the African, Caribbean and Pacific group countries once the UK’s exit from the EU is complete, or whether they plan to require exporters from those countries to secure separate SPS and food safety approvals for exports to the UK.
tabling member printed	Lord Chidgey
uin	HL1182
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2016 answer text <p>A new Department for Exiting the European Union has been established by my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister, to oversee arrangements for the UK’s exit from the EU after we have triggered Article 50. Until then the UK remains a full member of the EU.</p> answering member printed Lord Price question first answered 22/07/2016 13:29:09 answering member 4570 label Biography information for Lord Price
tabling member	50 label Biography information for Lord Chidgey