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date	05/02/2021
answering body	Department for International Trade
answering dept id	202
answering dept short name	International Trade
answering dept sort name	International Trade
hansard heading	Trade Agreements: Maldives
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what steps her Department is taking to establish equivalent trading agreements between Maldives and the UK as exist with similar Commonwealth countries.
tabling member constituency	Southend West
tabling member printed	Sir David Amess
uin	149716
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/02/2021 answer text <p>British agreements with similar Commonwealth countries were ‘rolled over’ from previous European Union (EU) agreements. My Hon. Friend will know that the Maldives did not have a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with the EU.</p><p>HM Government has not been able to negotiate trade deals with our friends around the world for almost fifty years. Now that we have control of our independent trade policy, the Department for International Trade is actively pursuing agreements with our trading partners, under an ambitious programme of work – including with the United States, Australia and New Zealand – as well as seeking accession to the Trans-Pacific Partnership.</p><p>The United Kingdom and the Maldives already have a strong bilateral relationship. Trade in goods and services was worth £<del class="ministerial">151</del><ins class="ministerial">201</ins>m in 2019. In that context, we are working with the Maldivian Government to explore ways to increase trade and investment across a range of sectors of mutual interest, including food and drink, defence, education, fitness and health, and in environmental science and sustainable development.</p> answering member constituency North East Hampshire answering member printed Mr Ranil Jayawardena question first answered 10/02/2021 10:20:26 question first ministerially corrected 19/02/2021 11:08:16 answering member 4498 label Biography information for Mr Ranil Jayawardena previous answer version 81719 answering member constituency North East Hampshire answering member printed Mr Ranil Jayawardena answering member 4498 label Biography information for Mr Ranil Jayawardena
tabling member	44 label Biography information for Sir David Amess

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date	14/03/2019
answering body	Department for International Trade
answering dept id	202
answering dept short name	International Trade
answering dept sort name	International Trade
hansard heading	Foreign Investment in UK
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What recent assessment he has made of trends in the level of inward foreign direct investment.
tabling member constituency	Southend West
tabling member printed	Sir David Amess
uin	909808
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/03/2019 answer text <p>With your permission Mr Speaker I will answer question 10 together with questions 13. The UK remains the top destination in Europe, and third in the world for foreign direct investment.  By the end of 2017, UK inward FDI stock levels reached <strong>£1,337bn</strong>, a record for the UK.</p><p> </p><p>In addition to publishing annual analysis of DIT’s FDI performance as Official Statistics, we recently published one of the most comprehensive analyses of the economic impact of FDI in the world, highlighting the benefits of FDI to the UK.</p> answering member constituency Beverley and Holderness answering member printed Graham Stuart question first answered 14/03/2019 14:48:50 answering member 1482 label Biography information for Graham Stuart
tabling member	44 label Biography information for Sir David Amess