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1564815

registered interest
date	09/01/2023
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: Dispute Resolution
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of seeking side letters to the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement that would exclude the UK from investor state dispute settlement claims.
tabling member constituency	Brentford and Isleworth
tabling member printed	Ruth Cadbury
uin	119102
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/01/2023 answer text <p>I refer the Hon. Member for Brentford and Isleworth to the answer given by my Hon. Friend the Minister for International Trade to the Hon. Member for Harrow West on 21 December 2022, UIN: 111512.</p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands question first answered 17/01/2023 10:46:13 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
tabling member	4389 label Biography information for Ruth Cadbury

1564818

registered interest
date	09/01/2023
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: Parliamentary Scrutiny
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, when her Department plans to respond to the fourth report of the International Trade Committee entitled Parliamentary scrutiny of free trade agreements, published on 27 October 2022.
tabling member constituency	Brentford and Isleworth
tabling member printed	Ruth Cadbury
uin	119105
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/01/2023 answer text <p>The Department responded to the fourth report of the International Trade Select Committee on 5 January 2023.</p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands question first answered 17/01/2023 17:30:19 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
tabling member	4389 label Biography information for Ruth Cadbury

1564819

registered interest
date	09/01/2023
answering body	Department for International Trade
answering dept id	202
answering dept short name	International Trade
answering dept sort name	International Trade
hansard heading	Tuna: Maldives
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 current tariffs on the import of tuna from the Maldives.
tabling member constituency	Brentford and Isleworth
tabling member printed	Ruth Cadbury
uin	119106
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/01/2023 answer text <p>The UK currently applies the UK Global Tariff of 20% to imports of tuna from the Maldives. This rate is also applied to imports from all other trading partners where preferential arrangements are not in place.</p><p> </p><p>The Government continues to explore pragmatic opportunities to enhance bilateral trade relations with the Maldives in areas of mutual interest, including fishing.</p> answering member constituency Mid Worcestershire answering member printed Nigel Huddleston question first answered 17/01/2023 11:57:30 answering member 4407 label Biography information for Nigel Huddleston
tabling member	4389 label Biography information for Ruth Cadbury

1564820

registered interest
date	09/01/2023
answering body	Department for International Trade
answering dept id	202
answering dept short name	International Trade
answering dept sort name	International Trade
hansard heading	Tuna: Maldives
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, whether her Department has made an assessment of the economic impact of imposing tariffs on the import of tuna into the UK from the Maldives.
tabling member constituency	Brentford and Isleworth
tabling member printed	Ruth Cadbury
uin	119107
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/01/2023 answer text <p>The Government does not make an assessment on the economic impact of imposing tariffs on every product from every trading partner.</p> answering member constituency Mid Worcestershire answering member printed Nigel Huddleston question first answered 17/01/2023 15:19:55 answering member 4407 label Biography information for Nigel Huddleston
tabling member	4389 label Biography information for Ruth Cadbury

1564822

registered interest
date	09/01/2023
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: Impact Assessments
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what her Department's policy is on the publication of economic impact assessments for (a) new and (b) updates to existing free trade agreements; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Brentford and Isleworth
tabling member printed	Ruth Cadbury
uin	119109
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/01/2023 answer text <p>The Government publishes analysis to assess the potential impacts of Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) in advance of negotiations. On conclusion of negotiations for a new agreement, a full impact assessment is published.</p><p> </p><p>The Government publishes analysis that is proportionate to the scope of negotiations and the agreement’s likely impact.</p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands question first answered 17/01/2023 12:09:28 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
tabling member	4389 label Biography information for Ruth Cadbury

1564824

registered interest
date	09/01/2023
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: Freedom of Information
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, how many freedom of information requests submitted to her Department are outside the statutory timeframe for a response as of 9 January 2023.
tabling member constituency	Brentford and Isleworth
tabling member printed	Ruth Cadbury
uin	119111
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/01/2023 answer text <p>As at 09 January there were 4 overdue FOI requests awaiting reply to the requester. These are now cleared and there are no outstanding FOIs at present.</p> answering member constituency Mid Worcestershire answering member printed Nigel Huddleston question first answered 19/01/2023 16:27:24 answering member 4407 label Biography information for Nigel Huddleston
tabling member	4389 label Biography information for Ruth Cadbury

1564825

registered interest
date	09/01/2023
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: Freedom of Information
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, with reference to the report entitled DIT action plan to achieve FOI timeliness compliance, published on 7 October 2022, whether her Department's information rights unit has delivered additional training on the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to civil servants.
tabling member constituency	Brentford and Isleworth
tabling member printed	Ruth Cadbury
uin	119112
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/01/2023 answer text <p>Additional training on the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) has been given to civil servants responsible for drafting and reviewing FOI responses at the Department for International Trade in line with the action plan. This training is in addition to broader awareness sessions and dates are available for colleagues to book.</p> answering member constituency Mid Worcestershire answering member printed Nigel Huddleston question first answered 18/01/2023 10:15:35 answering member 4407 label Biography information for Nigel Huddleston
tabling member	4389 label Biography information for Ruth Cadbury

1564826

registered interest
date	09/01/2023
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: Freedom of Information
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, how many staff work in her Department's information rights unit.
tabling member constituency	Brentford and Isleworth
tabling member printed	Ruth Cadbury
uin	119113
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/01/2023 answer text <p>As of 11 January, there are 8 members of staff in the Information Rights Unit (7.8 FTE).</p> answering member constituency Mid Worcestershire answering member printed Nigel Huddleston question first answered 18/01/2023 10:23:15 answering member 4407 label Biography information for Nigel Huddleston
tabling member	4389 label Biography information for Ruth Cadbury

1564827

registered interest
date	09/01/2023
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: Redundancy Pay
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, which Ministers formerly in her Department have received ministerial severance pay since leaving office in 2022.
tabling member constituency	Brentford and Isleworth
tabling member printed	Ruth Cadbury
uin	119114
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/01/2023 answer text <p>Details of such payments are published in the departmental annual reports and accounts, and ministerial salaries are published on GOV.UK at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/ministerial-salary-data/salaries-of-members-of-his-majestys-government-april-2022-html" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/ministerial-salary-data/salaries-of-members-of-his-majestys-government-april-2022-html</a></p> answering member constituency Mid Worcestershire answering member printed Nigel Huddleston question first answered 17/01/2023 13:51:37 answering member 4407 label Biography information for Nigel Huddleston
tabling member	4389 label Biography information for Ruth Cadbury

1564894

registered interest
date	09/01/2023
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: Dispute Resolution
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 oral evidence before the International Trade Committee on 30th November, HC 16 Q454, whether her Department has (a) published or (b) provided information to that Committee on her Departments analysis of investor state dispute settlements.
tabling member constituency	Brentford and Isleworth
tabling member printed	Ruth Cadbury
uin	119141
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/01/2023 answer text <p>Inclusion of Investor State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) in UK treaties is considered where it is in the UK's interests and where we agree with partners that it can play a useful role in supporting the bilateral investment relationship. These considerations are negotiation sensitive, and therefore not appropriate for publication.</p><p> </p><p>Investment protections and ISDS can provide reassurance to UK investors to make substantial long term foreign investments. UK investment overseas contributes to economies across the globe, strengthens international trade and security and supports developing countries.</p><p> </p><p>The UK has never had a successful ISDS claim against it.</p> answering member constituency Mid Worcestershire answering member printed Nigel Huddleston grouped question UIN 117617 question first answered 16/01/2023 11:36:27 answering member 4407 label Biography information for Nigel Huddleston previous answer version 46495 answering member constituency Mid Worcestershire answering member printed Nigel Huddleston answering member 4407 label Biography information for Nigel Huddleston
tabling member	4389 label Biography information for Ruth Cadbury