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1552592

	registered interest
	date	16/12/2022
	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: Japan
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, pursuant to Article 23.4 of the UK-Japan Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement, whether the UK and Japan have established any ad hoc working groups under the Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures.
	tabling member constituency	Harrow West
	tabling member printed	Gareth Thomas
	uin	112042
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/12/2022 answer text <p>Under the UK-Japan Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement, the UK and Japan may establish, if necessary, ad hoc technical working groups under certain specialised committees.</p><p> </p><p>To date, the UK and Japan have not established ad hoc technical working groups under the Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures, the Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade, the Committee on Regulatory Cooperation or established an Animal Welfare Technical Working Group under the Joint Committee.</p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands grouped question UIN 112043 112044 112045 question first answered 22/12/2022 14:51:12 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
	tabling member	177 label Biography information for Gareth Thomas

1552593

	registered interest
	date	16/12/2022
	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: Japan
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, with reference to Article 23.4 of the UK-Japan Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement, whether the UK and Japan have established any ad hoc technical working groups under the Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade.
	tabling member constituency	Harrow West
	tabling member printed	Gareth Thomas
	uin	112043
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/12/2022 answer text <p>Under the UK-Japan Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement, the UK and Japan may establish, if necessary, ad hoc technical working groups under certain specialised committees.</p><p> </p><p>To date, the UK and Japan have not established ad hoc technical working groups under the Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures, the Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade, the Committee on Regulatory Cooperation or established an Animal Welfare Technical Working Group under the Joint Committee.</p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands grouped question UIN 112042 112044 112045 question first answered 22/12/2022 14:51:12 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
	tabling member	177 label Biography information for Gareth Thomas

1552595

	registered interest
	date	16/12/2022
	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: Japan
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, with reference to Article 23.4 of the UK-Japan Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement, whether the UK and Japan have established any ad hoc working groups under the Committee on Regulatory Cooperation.
	tabling member constituency	Harrow West
	tabling member printed	Gareth Thomas
	uin	112044
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/12/2022 answer text <p>Under the UK-Japan Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement, the UK and Japan may establish, if necessary, ad hoc technical working groups under certain specialised committees.</p><p> </p><p>To date, the UK and Japan have not established ad hoc technical working groups under the Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures, the Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade, the Committee on Regulatory Cooperation or established an Animal Welfare Technical Working Group under the Joint Committee.</p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands grouped question UIN 112042 112043 112045 question first answered 22/12/2022 14:51:12 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
	tabling member	177 label Biography information for Gareth Thomas

1552596

	registered interest
	date	16/12/2022
	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: Japan
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, with reference to Article 23.4 of the UK-Japan Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement, whether the UK and Japan have established an Animal Welfare Technical Working Group under the Joint Committee.
	tabling member constituency	Harrow West
	tabling member printed	Gareth Thomas
	uin	112045
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/12/2022 answer text <p>Under the UK-Japan Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement, the UK and Japan may establish, if necessary, ad hoc technical working groups under certain specialised committees.</p><p> </p><p>To date, the UK and Japan have not established ad hoc technical working groups under the Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures, the Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade, the Committee on Regulatory Cooperation or established an Animal Welfare Technical Working Group under the Joint Committee.</p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands grouped question UIN 112042 112043 112044 question first answered 22/12/2022 14:51:12 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
	tabling member	177 label Biography information for Gareth Thomas

1552191

	registered interest
	date	15/12/2022
	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
	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 potential merits of the UK requesting a carve out of Investor State Dispute Mechanisms inherent to the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership when negotiating the UK’s accession to the CPTPP; and if she will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Harrow West
	tabling member printed	Gareth Thomas
	uin	111512
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2022 answer text <p>The precise details of any future free trade agreement are a matter of negotiation; we would not seek to pre-empt these discussions.</p><p>The Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership’s (CPTPP’s) investment chapter includes investor protections that are backed by a modern and transparent investor state dispute settlement (ISDS) mechanism. These commitments guarantee the treatment investors will receive when accessing and operating in CPTPP markets and provides an independent form of legal redress should investors not receive such treatment.</p><p> </p><p>The UK has 90+ Bilateral Investment Treaties in force with ISDS and has never received a successful claim nor has the threat of potential claims affected our legislation.</p> answering member constituency Mid Worcestershire answering member printed Nigel Huddleston question first answered 21/12/2022 14:52:53 answering member 4407 label Biography information for Nigel Huddleston
	tabling member	177 label Biography information for Gareth Thomas

1552192

	registered interest
	date	15/12/2022
	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, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of conducting environmental impact assessments on future trade agreements that the Government seeks to negotiate; and if she will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Harrow West
	tabling member printed	Gareth Thomas
	uin	111513
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/12/2022 answer text <p>The Government has committed to producing scoping assessments which are published at the point of launching a negotiation. These include a preliminary assessment of the potential implications for the environment. It has also committed to publishing an impact assessment at the point of signature, which include a more detailed assessment of the likely environmental impacts.</p><p> </p><p>The Government will continue to assess environmental impacts in these documents. It also runs public consultations ahead of commencing trade negotiations on any new trade agreement.</p> answering member constituency Mid Worcestershire answering member printed Nigel Huddleston question first answered 20/12/2022 15:48:37 answering member 4407 label Biography information for Nigel Huddleston
	tabling member	177 label Biography information for Gareth Thomas

1552193

	registered interest
	date	15/12/2022
	answering body	Department for International Trade
	answering dept id	202
	answering dept short name	International Trade
	answering dept sort name	International Trade
	hansard heading	WTO Committee on Trade and the Environment
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, if she will provide details her Department holds on the programme and priorities of the World’s Trade Organization’s Trade and Environment Group; and if she will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Harrow West
	tabling member printed	Gareth Thomas
	uin	111514
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/12/2022 answer text <p>The UK is an active member of the World Trade Organization’s Committee on Trade and Environment, currently chaired by the UK’s ambassador Simon Manley. Through this group, we are enhancing transparency, defending UK policy interests and promoting consensus on best practice alongside other members.</p><p> </p><p>The UK is also participating in ambitious plurilateral groups such as the Dialogue on Plastics Pollution, the Fossil Fuel Subsidy Reform Initiative, and the Trade and Environmentally Sustainability Structured Discussions (TESSD) where we are advocating for collective agreement to remove barriers and lower costs on environmental goods, and find solutions to help mitigate carbon leakage risk.</p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands question first answered 22/12/2022 14:37:44 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
	tabling member	177 label Biography information for Gareth Thomas

1552194

	registered interest
	date	15/12/2022
	answering body	Department for International Trade
	answering dept id	202
	answering dept short name	International Trade
	answering dept sort name	International Trade
	hansard heading	Garlic: China
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what estimate her Department has made of the percentage change in the price of imported garlic from China as a result of the upcoming changes to the Tariff Rate Quota; and if she will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Harrow West
	tabling member printed	Gareth Thomas
	uin	111515
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/12/2022 answer text <p>Earlier this year, the Government concluded negotiations with China under Article 28 of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade. In these negotiations the UK is using historic trade data to ensure that the tariff rate quota volumes in our World Trade Organization Goods Schedule provide continuity for traders. The upcoming change has been made on this basis and therefore is not expected to affect the price of imported garlic from China.</p> answering member constituency Mid Worcestershire answering member printed Nigel Huddleston question first answered 20/12/2022 16:13:41 answering member 4407 label Biography information for Nigel Huddleston
	tabling member	177 label Biography information for Gareth Thomas

1549640

	registered interest
	date	07/12/2022
	answering body	Department for International Trade
	answering dept id	202
	answering dept short name	International Trade
	answering dept sort name	International Trade
	hansard heading	TRIPS Agreement: Coronavirus
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of extending the TRIPS waiver to include COVID-19 tests and treatments.
	tabling member constituency	Harrow West
	tabling member printed	Gareth Thomas
	uin	105218
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/12/2022 answer text <p>I refer the Hon. Member for Harrow West to the answer I gave to him on 17 October 2022, UIN: <a href="https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2022-10-12/61708" target="_blank">61708</a>.</p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands question first answered 13/12/2022 17:42:57 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
	tabling member	177 label Biography information for Gareth Thomas

1548979

	registered interest
	date	06/12/2022
	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: Japan
	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 5 December to Question 93431 on Trade Agreements: Japan, when each (a) committee and (b) working group established by the UK-Japan Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement has met.
	tabling member constituency	Harrow West
	tabling member printed	Gareth Thomas
	uin	104087
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/12/2022 answer text <p>The following committees, under the UK-Japan Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement, were last held on the following dates:</p><p> </p><ul><li>Working Group on Trade and Women's Economic Empowerment: 21 October 2021</li><li>Committee on Trade in Services, Investment Liberalisation and Electronic Commerce: 1 November 2021</li><li>Committee on Government Procurement: 25 November 2021</li><li>Committee on Regulatory Cooperation: 04 February 2022</li><li>Joint Committee: 24 February 2022</li><li>Working Group on Wine (Trade in Goods): By written procedure on 1 January 2021</li><li>Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures: 27 April 2022</li><li>UK-Japan Financial Regulatory Forum: 9 June 2022</li><li>Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade: 29 June 2022</li><li>Working Group in Motor Vehicles and Parts (Trade in Goods): 24 June 2022</li><li>Committee on Intellectual Property: 28 October 2022</li><li>Committee on Trade in Goods: 30 November 2022</li></ul><p> </p><p>The next Working Group on Trade and Women's Economic Empowerment is planned for January 2023. The Government is in discussions with Japan about appropriate dates for other committees.</p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands grouped question UIN 104088 question first answered 14/12/2022 17:59:58 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
	tabling member	177 label Biography information for Gareth Thomas