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registered interest
date	26/10/2017
answering body	Department for International Trade
answering dept id	202
answering dept short name	International Trade
answering dept sort name	International Trade
hansard heading	EU External Trade: China
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what his policy is on market economic status for China within the EU for (a) steel and (b) other commodities.
tabling member constituency	Motherwell and Wishaw
tabling member printed	Marion Fellows
uin	109815
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/10/2017 answer text <p>As a member of the EU, the UK has supported the Commission’s proposal to revise its anti-dumping methodology, while clearly advocating that any amendments to the regulations must be applied in a way which is WTO compliant. Any changes to the EU’s methodology must be fair, balanced and compatible with WTO requirements.</p><p>On leaving the EU, we will operate our own trade policy. We will develop a WTO compliant trade remedies regime that will enable us to tackle significant market distortions. Our regime will provide UK industries, including steel, with protection against unfair and injurious trade practices.</p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands question first answered 31/10/2017 16:24:55 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
tabling member	4440 label Biography information for Marion Fellows

777694

registered interest
date	25/10/2017
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
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, whether the revised tariff rate quotas for the UK that will be lodged with the WTO will constitute a technical rectification.
tabling member constituency	Aberdeen North
tabling member printed	Kirsty Blackman
uin	109483
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/10/2017 answer text <p>As set out in the UK-EU letter of the 11 October 2017, in order to minimise disruption to global trade as we leave the EU, we will replicate as far as possible, our current obligations in the World Trade Organization (WTO). We recognise that tariff rate quotas are a particularly complex issue and we are working closely with the EU and other WTO members to maintain existing levels of market access.</p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands grouped question UIN 109485 question first answered 30/10/2017 17:21:32 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
tabling member	4357 label Biography information for Kirsty Blackman

777695

registered interest
date	25/10/2017
answering body	Department for International Trade
answering dept id	202
answering dept short name	International Trade
answering dept sort name	International Trade
hansard heading	World Trade Organization
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what assessment he has made of the effect of the UK and EU's joint position on WTO schedules of commitments on other WTO member states.
tabling member constituency	Aberdeen North
tabling member printed	Kirsty Blackman
uin	109484
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/10/2017 answer text <p>The UK and the EU have proposed an approach that would minimise disruption to trade with other WTO member states by maintaining the current levels of market access set out in our WTO schedules.</p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands question first answered 30/10/2017 17:06:46 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
tabling member	4357 label Biography information for Kirsty Blackman

777696

registered interest
date	25/10/2017
answering body	Department for International Trade
answering dept id	202
answering dept short name	International Trade
answering dept sort name	International Trade
hansard heading	World Trade Organization
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what plans he has to facilitate the implementation of the UK's schedules and quotas at the WTO under the modification procedure.
tabling member constituency	Aberdeen North
tabling member printed	Kirsty Blackman
uin	109485
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/10/2017 answer text <p>As set out in the UK-EU letter of the 11 October 2017, in order to minimise disruption to global trade as we leave the EU, we will replicate as far as possible, our current obligations in the World Trade Organization (WTO). We recognise that tariff rate quotas are a particularly complex issue and we are working closely with the EU and other WTO members to maintain existing levels of market access.</p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands grouped question UIN 109483 question first answered 30/10/2017 17:21:32 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
tabling member	4357 label Biography information for Kirsty Blackman

777697

registered interest
date	25/10/2017
answering body	Department for International Trade
answering dept id	202
answering dept short name	International Trade
answering dept sort name	International Trade
hansard heading	World Trade Organization
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 date when schedules and tariff rate quotas for the UK will be agreed at the WTO.
tabling member constituency	Aberdeen North
tabling member printed	Kirsty Blackman
uin	109486
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/10/2017 answer text <p>This Department is preparing the necessary schedules, so that they are ready for when the UK leaves the European Union (EU) on 29 March 2019.</p><p>It should also be noted that the UK is a full and founding member of the World Trade Organization and already has schedules which it shares at present with the EU Member States.</p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands question first answered 30/10/2017 17:13:26 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
tabling member	4357 label Biography information for Kirsty Blackman

777952

registered interest
date	25/10/2017
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: Brexit
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what funding his Department has set aside for contingencies relating to the UK leaving the EU in the (a) current and (b) 2018-19 financial year.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff South and Penarth
tabling member printed	Stephen Doughty
uin	109785
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/10/2017 answer text <p>Like all departments, the Department of International Trade (DIT) is planning for a number of scenarios to make sure we are ready on Day 1 of EU Exit.</p><p>Over £250m of additional funding has been approved across a number of departments in 2017/18 to prepare for Brexit.</p><p>DIT has received additional funding this year, and has reprioritised to meet new pressures arising from Brexit preparations.</p><p>Additional funding received from the reserve for 2017/8 will be set out at Supplementary Estimates.</p><p>The costs of EU Exit in 2018-19 will be affected by negotiations over the coming months.</p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands question first answered 30/10/2017 17:48:31 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
tabling member	4264 label Biography information for Stephen Doughty

777953

registered interest
date	25/10/2017
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: Brexit
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, whether his Department was consulted by the Department for Exiting the European Union on the economic impact assessments conducted for the UK leaving the EU.
tabling member constituency	Feltham and Heston
tabling member printed	Seema Malhotra
uin	109548
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/10/2017 answer text <p>The Government is carrying out an ongoing programme of comprehensive analytical work that will inform our negotiating position with the EU, to define our deep and special partnership with the EU and inform our understanding of how EU exit will affect the UK’s domestic policies and frameworks.</p><p>The Department for International Trade is working with officials across government, in close coordination with the Department for Exiting the European Union, to ensure the delivery of a holistic programme of analysis across government.</p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands question first answered 30/10/2017 16:59:27 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
tabling member	4253 label Biography information for Seema Malhotra

777955

registered interest
date	25/10/2017
answering body	Department for International Trade
answering dept id	202
answering dept short name	International Trade
answering dept sort name	International Trade
hansard heading	ICT: Trade Agreements
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what plans the Government has to bring forward a schedule of commitments on trade in IT equipment to be agreed with new trading partners after the UK leaves the EU; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Na h-Eileanan an Iar
tabling member printed	Angus Brendan MacNeil
uin	109690
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/10/2017 answer text <p>In pursuing technical rectification of UK tariff schedules at the World Trade Organization (WTO), we aim to replicate as far as possible our current obligations; this includes commitments under the Information Technology Agreement (ITA) of 1996, and the ITA expansion declaration of 2015.</p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands question first answered 30/10/2017 17:38:32 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
tabling member	1546 label Biography information for Angus Brendan MacNeil

776858

registered interest
date	24/10/2017
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: Iran
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, with reference to UK Defence and Security Export Statistics for 2016, how much of the £5.9 billion that the UK exported, based on orders, was paid for by the Government of Iran.
tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
uin	109243
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/10/2017 answer text <p>The DIT Defence and Security Organisation recorded no new orders of defence exports to Iran in 2016 as the sale, supply, transfer or export to Iran, of all military goods and technology as listed in the UK Military List remain banned under the proliferation-related sanctions.</p> answering member constituency Wyre Forest answering member printed Mark Garnier question first answered 30/10/2017 12:41:44 answering member 4074 label Biography information for Mark Garnier
tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

777081

registered interest
date	24/10/2017
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 Students
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what recent discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for (a) Education, (b) Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, (c) Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs and (d) Home Affairs on (i) higher education exports and (ii) encouraging overseas students to study in the UK.
tabling member constituency	Sefton Central
tabling member printed	Bill Esterson
uin	109384
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/11/2017 answer text <p>The Department for Education will be a standing member of the DIT Education Sector Advisory Board. Other Government Departments, including the Department for International Development, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy and Home Office will be invited depending on the agenda for each meeting. The Government recognises the benefit that education exports bring to the UK and this Group will support the aspirations of the sector internationally.</p><p> </p><p>DIT liaises regularly across Whitehall departments in support of growth in higher education exports. The Government actively champions study in the UK through the GREAT Campaign and through the British Council which promotes the UK in over 100 countries. The UK attracts high numbers of overseas students, second only to the USA in terms of our market share, and there continues to be no limit to the number who can come here to study.</p> answering member constituency Wyre Forest answering member printed Mark Garnier grouped question UIN 109386 question first answered 01/11/2017 17:46:12 answering member 4074 label Biography information for Mark Garnier
tabling member	4061 label Biography information for Bill Esterson