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794283

registered interest
date	23/11/2017
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: Taxation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, if he will publish all external guidance and advice his Department has received on the proposals to adopt the lesser duty rule as part of any future trade remedy scheme as set out in the Taxation (Cross Border Trade) Bill.
tabling member constituency	Stoke-on-Trent Central
tabling member printed	Gareth Snell
uin	115256
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/12/2017 answer text <p>The UK’s trade remedies regime will provide robust protections for UK industry suffering from injury, caused by dumped or subsidised imports, or unforeseen import surges. To ensure these protections are proportionate, the regime will set measures at the level necessary to address the injury to UK industry (known as the lesser duty rule), and apply an economic interest test as part of the independent investigation process (similar to the existing Union interest test in the EU).</p><p>We have been engaging with stakeholders on how these elements of the regime will work in practice, and are committed to continuing that engagement. This process will also be informed by economic research commissioned by this Department through public tender to provide evidence on the design and implementation of a future trade remedies framework.</p> answering member constituency Wyre Forest answering member printed Mark Garnier grouped question UIN 115257 question first answered 04/12/2017 11:13:07 answering member 4074 label Biography information for Mark Garnier
tabling member	4595 label Biography information for Gareth Snell

794284

registered interest
date	23/11/2017
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: Taxation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what external advice he has received on the application of an economic interest test as part of any future trade remedy scheme after the UK leaves the EU.
tabling member constituency	Stoke-on-Trent Central
tabling member printed	Gareth Snell
uin	115257
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/12/2017 answer text <p>The UK’s trade remedies regime will provide robust protections for UK industry suffering from injury, caused by dumped or subsidised imports, or unforeseen import surges. To ensure these protections are proportionate, the regime will set measures at the level necessary to address the injury to UK industry (known as the lesser duty rule), and apply an economic interest test as part of the independent investigation process (similar to the existing Union interest test in the EU).</p><p>We have been engaging with stakeholders on how these elements of the regime will work in practice, and are committed to continuing that engagement. This process will also be informed by economic research commissioned by this Department through public tender to provide evidence on the design and implementation of a future trade remedies framework.</p> answering member constituency Wyre Forest answering member printed Mark Garnier grouped question UIN 115256 question first answered 04/12/2017 11:13:07 answering member 4074 label Biography information for Mark Garnier
tabling member	4595 label Biography information for Gareth Snell

794408

registered interest
date	23/11/2017
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: USA
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what the value of (a) imports from and (b) exports to the US was for each region and nation of the UK in each of the last 30 years for which data is available.
tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
uin	115381
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/11/2017 answer text <p>Data on the value of UK trade (exports and imports) in goods and services with the USA since 1999 are available from the ONS at:</p><p><a href="https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/nationalaccounts/balanceofpayments/adhocs/007716additionalcountrydatafortradeingoodsandservicesbetween1999and2016" target="_blank">https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/nationalaccounts/balanceofpayments/adhocs/007716additionalcountrydatafortradeingoodsandservicesbetween1999and2016</a></p><p>Data on the value of UK trade in goods by UK region with the USA since 1996 are available from HM Customs and Revenue (HMRC)’s Build Your Own Tables application at:</p><p><a href="https://www.uktradeinfo.com/Statistics/BuildYourOwnTables/Pages/Home.aspx" target="_blank">https://www.uktradeinfo.com/Statistics/BuildYourOwnTables/Pages/Home.aspx</a> (RTS data)</p><p>Data on the value of exports of services (excluding travel, transport and financial services) by GB region to the USA in 2015 are available from the ONS at:</p><p><a href="https://www.ons.gov.uk/businessindustryandtrade/internationaltrade/articles/estimatingthevalueofserviceexportsabroadfromdifferentpartsoftheuk/2015" target="_blank">https://www.ons.gov.uk/businessindustryandtrade/internationaltrade/articles/estimatingthevalueofserviceexportsabroadfromdifferentpartsoftheuk/2015</a> (data for earlier years are not available).</p><p> </p><p> </p><p><strong>Notes:</strong></p><ol><li><strong>The data at the links above are not comparable due to differences in coverage and methodology between sources</strong></li><li><strong>Data on the value of imports of services from the USA are not available </strong></li></ol> answering member constituency Wyre Forest answering member printed Mark Garnier question first answered 28/11/2017 12:49:26 answering member 4074 label Biography information for Mark Garnier
tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

794441

registered interest
date	23/11/2017
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, for what reason the figures in the Red Book, published on 22 November show growth in exports of goods and services in the UK falling from 3.4% in 2018 to 0.1% in 2020.
tabling member constituency	Sefton Central
tabling member printed	Bill Esterson
uin	115414
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/11/2017 answer text <p>The Budget takes its trade projections from the Office for Budget Responsibility’s (OBR) autumn forecast. Details of the OBR’s forecast can be found in its Economic and Fiscal Outlook for November 2017. As the OBR stresses, there is considerable uncertainty around these forecasts.</p> answering member constituency Wyre Forest answering member printed Mark Garnier question first answered 28/11/2017 13:13:32 answering member 4074 label Biography information for Mark Garnier
tabling member	4061 label Biography information for Bill Esterson

794442

registered interest
date	23/11/2017
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, pursuant to his oral Answer on 23 November, what discussion he has had with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on the additional funding for his Department following the Autumn Budget 2017 and how many additional staff he plans to recruit as a result of that additional funding.
tabling member constituency	Sefton Central
tabling member printed	Bill Esterson
uin	115415
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/12/2017 answer text <p>As the Chancellor announced in Budget, a further £3 billion has been set aside for Brexit preparations over the next two years, and the Department will work with HM Treasury, to ensure it receives the additional funding it needs in 2018-19. The number of additional staff recruited will be agreed as part of this process.</p> answering member constituency Wyre Forest answering member printed Mark Garnier question first answered 01/12/2017 13:30:11 answering member 4074 label Biography information for Mark Garnier
tabling member	4061 label Biography information for Bill Esterson

794443

registered interest
date	23/11/2017
answering body	Department for International Trade
answering dept id	202
answering dept short name	International Trade
answering dept sort name	International Trade
hansard heading	Small Businesses
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, pursuant to his Oral Answer on 23 November 2017, what criteria he used to locate staff from the Export Hub on Small Business Saturday.
tabling member constituency	Sefton Central
tabling member printed	Bill Esterson
uin	115416
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/11/2017 answer text <p>The Export Hub is invited to locations across the UK, and has so far visited 23<ins class="ministerial">1</ins><del class="ministerial">5</del> sites. Any Member of Parliament is able to request for the Export Hub to visit their constituency.</p><p>The logistics for managing the Export Hub is contracted through an external company.</p><p>Many cross-party MPs have spoken highly of the work of the Export Hub at the Department for International Trade’s (DIT) Monthly MPs Briefings which the DIT Ministerial team hosts.</p> answering member constituency Wyre Forest answering member printed Mark Garnier question first answered 28/11/2017 17:55:44 question first ministerially corrected 30/11/2017 11:52:32 answering member 4074 label Biography information for Mark Garnier previous answer version 25634 answering member constituency Wyre Forest answering member printed Mark Garnier answering member 4074 label Biography information for Mark Garnier
tabling member	4061 label Biography information for Bill Esterson

794446

registered interest
date	23/11/2017
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 pursuant to his Oral Answer of 23 November 2017, what the timetable is for the agreement of each of the trade agreements to be rolled over from the EU after the UK leaves the EU; and how many staff in his Department have been allocated to each agreement.
tabling member constituency	Sefton Central
tabling member printed	Bill Esterson
uin	115419
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/11/2017 answer text <p>The Department for International Trade is engaging with all countries with which the European Union currently has free trade agreements with a view to replicating, as far as possible, the effects of existing agreements as the United Kingdom leaves the European Union, including in any implementation period that might be agreed between the UK and the EU.</p><p>This work involves staff across the Department and in other government departments.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands question first answered 28/11/2017 17:35:23 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
tabling member	4061 label Biography information for Bill Esterson

794452

registered interest
date	23/11/2017
answering body	Department for International Trade
answering dept id	202
answering dept short name	International Trade
answering dept sort name	International Trade
hansard heading	Small Businesses
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, pursuant to the Oral Answer on 23 November 2017, how much funding from UK Export Finance has been spent on (a) supporting UK businesses and (b) advisers to those businesses.
tabling member constituency	Sefton Central
tabling member printed	Bill Esterson
uin	115425
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/11/2017 answer text <p>UK Export Finance (UKEF) operates at no net cost to the taxpayer, and has provided £14 billion of support for UK exports in the last five years. Over that period, administrative costs were £137 million, of which around £4m related to its network of 24 Export Finance Managers, who act as local points of contact for businesses across the UK. UKEF generated £532 million in premium for the same period.</p> answering member constituency Wyre Forest answering member printed Mark Garnier question first answered 28/11/2017 12:43:35 answering member 4074 label Biography information for Mark Garnier
tabling member	4061 label Biography information for Bill Esterson

794498

registered interest
date	23/11/2017
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: Arbitration
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, pursuant to the Answer of 22 November 2017 to Question 113324, how many departmental staff are involved in the process of establishing a trade remedies framework.
tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
uin	115471
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/12/2017 answer text <p>The Department for International Trade has 21 departmental staff who work primarily on the process of establishing a trade remedies framework.</p> answering member constituency Wyre Forest answering member printed Mark Garnier question first answered 01/12/2017 14:13:42 answering member 4074 label Biography information for Mark Garnier
tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

794500

registered interest
date	23/11/2017
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: Arbitration
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, pursuant to the Answer of 22 November 2017 to Question 113324, how many (a) seconded and (b) newly-hired staff were offered employment in his Department to assist in establishing a trade remedies framework during the last twelve months.
tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
uin	115473
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/12/2017 answer text <p>During the last twelve months, the Department for International Trade has hired 19 new staff and seconded one member of staff on loan from another Government department, to work on establishing a trade remedies framework which includes the Trade Remedies Authority. Seven of those were hired from outside the Civil Service. None have been seconded from outside the Civil Service.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Wyre Forest answering member printed Mark Garnier grouped question UIN 115520 question first answered 01/12/2017 14:06:21 answering member 4074 label Biography information for Mark Garnier
tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne