Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Greg Hands and James Daly

Thursday 3rd November 2022 Commons Chamber

[James Daly (Bury North) (Con)]

T2.   What progress is being made on establishing a free trade agreement with Pakistan?

[The Minister of State, Department for International Trade (Greg Hands)]

I welcome my hon. Friend’s interest in trade with Pakistan. When I visited the country—I was the last Trade Minister to do so—I observed the excellent co-operation that was taking place between businesses in the UK and Pakistan. Big investments by UK firms such as GSK in Karachi are key to the delivery of £3 billion-worth of trade. I am pleased to say that we will be formalising this relationship through a new ministerial-led UK-Pakistan trade dialogue, in which we will co-operate further on reducing and removing barriers to trade.