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1190501

	registered interest
	date	27/04/2020
	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 Remedies Authority: Trade Unions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, if she will make it her policy to ensure representation of trade unions on the board of the Trade Remedies Authority.
	tabling member constituency	Sefton Central
	tabling member printed	Bill Esterson
	uin	40587
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/05/2020 answer text <p>The independence of the Trade Remedies Authority (TRA) Board will be crucial to safeguarding the impartiality and objectivity of the TRA, and to ensure it acts in the national interest. We are committed to staffing the TRA Board with an appropriate range of backgrounds and experience. It is essential that Board members are appointed on merit to ensure that the Board has the right blend of skills and expertise, rather than due to affiliations with any specific interest group.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bournemouth West answering member printed Conor Burns question first answered 04/05/2020 10:03:13 answering member 3922 label Biography information for Sir Conor Burns
	tabling member	4061 label Biography information for Bill Esterson

1190504

	registered interest
	date	27/04/2020
	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 Bill: Coronavirus
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what steps the Government is taking to ensure that witnesses are able to give evidence at the Committee Stage of the Trade Bill while complying with the Government's social distancing measures.
	tabling member constituency	Sefton Central
	tabling member printed	Bill Esterson
	uin	40588
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/05/2020 answer text <p>The House Authorities are working with all parties to ensure that legislation can proceed through all parliamentary stages in accordance with guidelines on social distancing. The Government will adhere to these guidelines.</p> answering member constituency Bournemouth West answering member printed Conor Burns question first answered 04/05/2020 10:07:44 answering member 3922 label Biography information for Sir Conor Burns
	tabling member	4061 label Biography information for Bill Esterson

1190278

	registered interest
	date	24/04/2020
	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 Remedies Investigations Directorate: Public Appointments
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, who the (a) executive and (b) non-executive members of the Trade Remedies Investigations Directorate are; whether any of those members have (a) recently given notice of resignation or (b) had their appointments terminated.
	tabling member constituency	Sefton Central
	tabling member printed	Bill Esterson
	uin	39661
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/04/2020 answer text <p>The Chief Executive Officer Designate of the shadow Trade Remedies Authority, and Director of the Trade Remedies Investigations Directorate, is Claire Bassett. As announced on Gov.uk website on 28<sup>th</sup> April, Claire Bassett has given notice of resignation and is stepping down from her role on 31 August 2020.</p><p> </p><p>The Chair Designate of the Trade Remedies Authority is Simon Walker.</p><p> </p><p>The Department for International Trade has started a recruitment process for a new Chief Executive Officer Designate, and five Non-Executive Directors.</p> answering member constituency Bournemouth West answering member printed Conor Burns question first answered 29/04/2020 12:31:04 answering member 3922 label Biography information for Sir Conor Burns
	tabling member	4061 label Biography information for Bill Esterson

1172556

	registered interest
	date	22/01/2020
	answering body	Department for International Trade
	answering dept id	202
	answering dept short name	International Trade
	answering dept sort name	International Trade
	hansard heading	Food: Standards
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what steps she is taking to ensure that (a) chlorinated chicken and (b) foods that do not meet UK food standards are not included in future trade deals.
	tabling member constituency	Sefton Central
	tabling member printed	Bill Esterson
	uin	6666
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/01/2020 answer text <p>The Government has made it clear that any future trade deals must work for UK consumers, farmers and companies. We remain firmly committed to upholding our high environmental, food safety and animal welfare standards post-Brexit and the EU Withdrawal Act will transfer all existing EU food safety provisions onto the UK statute book.</p> answering member constituency Bournemouth West answering member printed Conor Burns question first answered 27/01/2020 13:00:59 answering member 3922 label Biography information for Sir Conor Burns
	tabling member	4061 label Biography information for Bill Esterson

1172557

	registered interest
	date	22/01/2020
	answering body	Department for International Trade
	answering dept id	202
	answering dept short name	International Trade
	answering dept sort name	International Trade
	hansard heading	Food: Standards
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what plans she has to maintain UK food production standards in future trade deals.
	tabling member constituency	Sefton Central
	tabling member printed	Bill Esterson
	uin	6667
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/01/2020 answer text <p>The Government has been clear that we remain firmly committed to upholding our high environmental, food safety and animal welfare standards post-Brexit and the EU Withdrawal Act will transfer all existing EU food safety provisions onto the UK statute book. Any future trade agreements must work for UK consumers, farmers and companies.</p> answering member constituency Bournemouth West answering member printed Conor Burns question first answered 27/01/2020 13:04:21 answering member 3922 label Biography information for Sir Conor Burns
	tabling member	4061 label Biography information for Bill Esterson

1172558

	registered interest
	date	22/01/2020
	answering body	Department for International Trade
	answering dept id	202
	answering dept short name	International Trade
	answering dept sort name	International Trade
	hansard heading	Food: Imports
	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 ensure that imported food meets UK standards as a condition of entry after the UK leaves the EU.
	tabling member constituency	Sefton Central
	tabling member printed	Bill Esterson
	uin	6668
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/01/2020 answer text <p>After EU exit, the UK will decide how we set and maintain our own standards and regulations and we have been clear that we remain firmly committed to upholding our high environmental, food safety and animal welfare standards. The UK’s independent food regulators will continue to ensure that all food imports into the UK comply with those high standards.</p> answering member constituency Bournemouth West answering member printed Conor Burns question first answered 27/01/2020 13:07:39 answering member 3922 label Biography information for Sir Conor Burns
	tabling member	4061 label Biography information for Bill Esterson

1140820

	registered interest
	date	22/07/2019
	answering body	Department for International Trade
	answering dept id	202
	answering dept short name	International Trade
	answering dept sort name	International Trade
	hansard heading	Trade Remedies Authority: Staff
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, how many staff worked for the Trade Remedies Authority as of July 2019.
	tabling member constituency	Sefton Central
	tabling member printed	Bill Esterson
	uin	280256
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/08/2019 answer text <ul><li>The Trade Remedies Authority (TRA) will be a non-departmental independent public body and will be established with the passing of the Trade Bill. Before that happens, and to provide certainty to UK businesses that they will not be exposed to injury from unfair trade practices, the Trade Remedies Investigations Directorate has been temporarily established within DIT to make assessments and recommendations in a respect of a trade remedy measure.</li><li>There are currently (23<sup>rd</sup> July 2019) 104 staff working for Trade Remedies Investigations Directorate and these will transfer to the TRA once it has been established.</li></ul> answering member constituency Bournemouth West answering member printed Conor Burns question first answered 01/08/2019 11:43:40 answering member 3922 label Biography information for Sir Conor Burns
	tabling member	4061 label Biography information for Bill Esterson

1140821

	registered interest
	date	22/07/2019
	answering body	Department for International Trade
	answering dept id	202
	answering dept short name	International Trade
	answering dept sort name	International Trade
	hansard heading	Trade Remedies Authority: Finance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what proportion of his Department's budget is allocated to the Trade Remedies Authority.
	tabling member constituency	Sefton Central
	tabling member printed	Bill Esterson
	uin	280257
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/07/2019 answer text <p>The following figures relate to the operational budget of the Trade Remedies Investigation Directorate (TRID):</p><p> </p><p>- For the year 2018/2019 TRID had a budget £7.3m which equated to 1.7% of the Department’s overall budget.</p><p> </p><p>- For the year 2019/2020 TRID has a budget of £11.9m which equates to 2.3% of the Department’s overall budget</p><p> </p><p>Please note that any costs relating to occupancy and IT infrastructure are provided by centralised services and the Department does not operate an internal charging regime to reallocate these costs to the business units.</p> answering member constituency Bournemouth West answering member printed Conor Burns question first answered 30/07/2019 17:32:31 answering member 3922 label Biography information for Sir Conor Burns
	tabling member	4061 label Biography information for Bill Esterson

1140823

	registered interest
	date	22/07/2019
	answering body	Department for International Trade
	answering dept id	202
	answering dept short name	International Trade
	answering dept sort name	International Trade
	hansard heading	Renewable Energy: Developing Countries
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what proportion of UK Export Finance spend was on renewable projects in developing economies in each of the last three years.
	tabling member constituency	Sefton Central
	tabling member printed	Bill Esterson
	uin	280259
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/07/2019 answer text <p>UK Export Finance (UKEF)’s mission is to ensure no viable UK export fails for lack of finance or insurance, while operating at no net cost to the taxpayer. UKEF helps UK companies win export contracts by providing attractive financing terms to their buyers, fulfil contracts by supporting working capital loans, and get paid by insuring against buyer default. For this reason, this response has interpreted the request for the proportion of UKEF <em>spend</em> as the proportion of UKEF <em>support</em>, that being the share of total maximum liability UKEF provided for exports relating to renewables in low and middle-income countries in each of the last three years.</p><p>UKEF classifies countries as per the World Bank classification system, where countries are divided into four income categories – low, lower-middle, upper-middle and high-income. For this reason, the response has interpreted ‘developing economies’ to include countries with either a low, lower-middle and upper-middle income classification.</p><p> </p><p>The share of support UK Export Finance (UKEF) provided for exports relating to renewables in low and middle-income countries can be found in the table.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>FY</p></td><td><p>Share of maximum liability which went to renewables projects in low and middle-income countries, %</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018-19</p></td><td><p>.66%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017-18</p></td><td><p>.04%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016-17</p></td><td><p>0%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>UKEF publishes details of the support it provides in its Annual Report and Accounts.</p> answering member constituency Bournemouth West answering member printed Conor Burns question first answered 30/07/2019 17:18:41 answering member 3922 label Biography information for Sir Conor Burns
	tabling member	4061 label Biography information for Bill Esterson