International Trade

Ranil Jayawardena Excerpts

Monday 19th July 2021 Ministerial Corrections

The following is an extract from International Trade Oral Questions on 15 July 2021.

[Mr Jayawardena]

On the point the hon. Gentleman made towards the end of his question, there has been much talk about global Britain this week and trade is the route to prosperity, for Britain and her friends around the world. Although others may be content with offering only handouts, we are determined to give our friends a hand up. So having taken back control of our trade policy, I can confirm that we will be looking to go further than the EU and we will be setting out our plans and launching a consultation on this very soon.

[Official Report, 15 July 2021, Vol. 699, c. 527.]

Letter of correction from the Under-Secretary of State for International Trade, the hon. Member for North East Hampshire (Mr Jayawardena).

An error has been identified in my response to the hon. Member for Portsmouth South (Stephen Morgan).

The correct response should have been:

[Mr Jayawardena]

On the point the hon. Gentleman made towards the end of his question, there has been much talk about global Britain this week and trade is the route to prosperity, for Britain and her friends around the world. Although others may be content with offering only handouts, we are determined to give our friends a hand up. So having taken back control of our trade policy, I can confirm that we will be looking to go further than the EU and we will be setting out our plans and launching a consultation on the generalised system of preference very soon.[Official Report, 22 July 2021, Vol. 699, c. 10MC.]