Asked by: Holly Lynch (Labour - Halifax)
Question to the Department for International Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, whether UK trade negotiators will be instructed to consider the risks and opportunities for poverty reduction in the least developed countries during future negotiations of trade deals.
Answered by Greg Hands - Minister of State (Department for Business and Trade)
The UK Government is committed to ensuring developing countries can reduce poverty through trading opportunities. Trading arrangements that do not involve developing countries can still have an impact on them. Such impacts will be taken into account as the UK develops its international trade policy.
Asked by: Holly Lynch (Labour - Halifax)
Question to the Department for International Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what steps he is taking to ensure that the UK's future trade agreements take into account their potential effect on exports from the least developed countries to the UK.
Answered by Greg Hands - Minister of State (Department for Business and Trade)
The UK Government is committed to ensuring developing countries can reduce poverty through trading opportunities. As the UK prepares to leave the EU there will be no initial change in the way we trade with developing countries. The UK has a unique opportunity to shape a bright future for the UK and its trading relationship with developing countries.