Written questions

4,857 written questions tabled, most recent first.

23 Mar 2021 · Department for International Trade

Freeports

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, for what reason the Board of Trade’s Global Britain, Local Jobs report did not include the role that freeports will play in contributing to her Department’s strategy; and if she will publish an addend

23 Mar 2021 · Department for International Trade

Trade Agreements: Japan

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, with reference to the Board of Trade’s Global Britain, Local Jobs report, what assessment she has made of whether the UK-Japan CEPA helped to level up the UK; and how her Department made that assessme

23 Mar 2021 · Department for International Trade

Industry

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, with reference to the Board of Trade’s Global Britain, Local Jobs report, how her Department defines key industries.

23 Mar 2021 · Department for International Trade

Trade Agreements: Excise Duties

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, with reference to page 24 of the Board of Trade’s Global Britain, Local Jobs report, whether each tariff reduction previously available to key UK industries was maintained in the Free Trade Agreements

23 Mar 2021 · Department for International Trade

Trade Agreements: Excise Duties

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, with reference to page 24 of the Board of Trade’s Global Britain, Local Jobs report, in which of the Free Trade Agreements covering 66 countries negotiated by her Department have tariff reductions bee

23 Mar 2021 · Department for International Trade

Business: Regulation

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, with reference to page 25 of the Board of Trade’s Global Britain, Local Jobs report, what current UK regulations she has assessed (a) are not proportionate or (b) place too large an impact on the ease

23 Mar 2021 · Department for International Trade

Trade Agreements: Digital Technology

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, pursuant to the Board of Trade’s Global Britain, Local Jobs report, what steps her Department is taking through its trade agreements to reduce the risk of regulatory divergence in relation to data and

22 Mar 2021 · Department for International Trade

Import Duties: USA

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what estimate she has made of the cost to the Exchequer of the decision to suspend tariffs on imports from the US arising from the Boeing-Airbus dispute during the period from 1 January to 4 March 202

22 Mar 2021 · Department for International Trade

Trade Agreements: Ghana

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, when she plans to publish the Trade Partnership Agreement between the UK and Ghana signed on 2 March 2021.

22 Mar 2021 · Department for International Trade

Economic Partnership Agreements: Cameroon

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, when she plans to publish the (a) Economic Partnership Agreement between the UK and Cameroon signed on 9 March 2021 and (b) Memorandum of Understanding previously in place between the UK and Cameroon

22 Mar 2021 · Department for International Trade

UK Export Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, if she will publish the new Memorandum of Understanding agreed between her Department and UK Export Finance.

16 Mar 2021 · Department for International Trade

Import Duties: USA

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, for what reason her Department's policy on retaliatory tariffs against the US differs in relation to the (a) steel and aluminium and (b) Boeing-Airbus dispute.

16 Mar 2021 · Department for International Trade

Whisky: USA

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, whether she (a) has the legal authority and (b) plans to double retaliatory tariffs on imports of bourbon whiskey from the US after 1 June 2021.

12 Mar 2021 · Ministry of Justice

Ivory: Smuggling

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, pursuant to the Answer of 10 March 2021 to Question 161718, on Ivory: Smuggling, under which category of offence in his Department's Court Proceedings Database have offences related to ivory smuggling been record

12 Mar 2021 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation: Data Protection

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment he has made of the potential (a) merits and (b) disadvantages of recognising the APEC-CBPR as equivalent to the UK’s data protection laws.

12 Mar 2021 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Data Protection: Japan

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what processes the Government has in place to (a) monitor the level of protections afforded to UK citizens’ data by Japan and (b) respond to evidence of lower protections in that country

10 Mar 2021 · Department for Education

Education: UK Trade with EU

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what discussions have taken place between UK and EU representatives on the effect of the UK-EU Trade and Cooperation Agreement on export opportunities for the UK EdTech sector in Europe.

10 Mar 2021 · Department for International Trade

Tradeshow Access Programme

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, when her Department plans to make an announcement on the future of the Trade Show Access Programme.

10 Mar 2021 · Department for International Trade

Trade Agreements: Ghana

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what plans she has to refund the tariffs incurred between the date on which agreement was reached in principle on the UK-Ghana Interim Trade Partnership Agreement and the date on which it came into ef

10 Mar 2021 · Department for International Trade

Trade Agreements: Japan

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what steps her Department has taken to mitigate the effect of the UK-Japan Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement on producers in (a) Jamaica, (b) India, (c) Mauritius, (d) Pakistan, (e) South A

10 Mar 2021 · Department for International Trade

Trade Agreements: USA

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what discussions UK and US trade negotiators have had on the effect of a UK-US trade deal on the economies of Caribbean countries.

10 Mar 2021 · Department for International Trade

Trade Agreements: Australasia

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, when the draft texts of (a) the UK-Australia and (b) the UK-New Zealand trade agreements will be shared with members of the (i) Trade Advisory Group on Agri-Food and (ii) Trade and Agriculture Commiss

10 Mar 2021 · Department for International Trade

Trade Agreements: Australia

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what discussions have taken place between UK and Australian trade negotiators on potential UK import restrictions on meat products treated with growth-promoting antibiotics.

9 Mar 2021 · Department for International Trade

Data Protection: Japan

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, which UK-Japan Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement data provisions are (a) models for agreements on digital and data with other countries the UK is seeking to negotiate trade or digital deals

9 Mar 2021 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Data Protection: Japan

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, how the data provisions of the UK-Japan Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement affect the data protections UK citizens are afforded if they are employed by a company based in Japan

9 Mar 2021 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Data Protection: Japan

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment he has made of the long-term compatibility of UK-Japan Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement data rules and the draft data adequacy decision taken by the EU with r

9 Mar 2021 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Internet: Japan

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment he has made of the potential effect of the UK’s commitments under the UK-Japan Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement on enacting future online harms legislation.

9 Mar 2021 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Technology: Japan

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment he has made of the effect of the source code, software and algorithm provisions of the UK-Japan Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement on the Government’s right to

9 Mar 2021 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Data Protection: Japan

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, whether UK citizens enjoy individual rights to reasonable explanation and reasonable inferences on how their data is used under the exemptions of the UK-Japan Comprehensive Economic Part

9 Mar 2021 · Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Data Protection: Japan

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment he has made of the compatibility of a potential ban on arbitrary or unjustifiable restrictions on data flows within the UK-Japan Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreem

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