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Rupa Huq

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The following is an extract from questions to the Secretary of State for International Trade on 17 October 2019.
Rupa Huq Portrait Dr Rupa Huq (Ealing Central and Acton) (Lab)
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2. What progress she has made on the rollover of existing EU trade agreements.

Conor Burns Portrait The Minister of State, Department for International Trade (Conor Burns)
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In preparation for our exit from the European Union, the Government have, to date, secured 16 continuity trade agreements with 46 countries. Trade with those countries represents 72% of the UK’s total trade. I am pleased to inform the House that only last week my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State signed another agreement with the Southern African Customs Union and Mozambique to roll over the existing EU trade agreements that we have with them.

[Official Report, 17 October 2019, Vol. 666, c. 431.]

Letter of correction from the Minister of State, Department for International Trade, the right hon. Member for Bournemouth West (Conor Burns):

An error has been identified in the response I gave to the hon. Member for Ealing Central and Acton (Dr Huq).

The correct response should have been:

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