Question to the Department for International Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what the cost to the public purse was of establishing the trade remedies framework between January and August 2017.

The Department for International Trade is still in the process of establishing a trade remedies framework and it will be subject to Parliamentary approval. Between January and August 2017, the Department invested resources to develop the policy, legislative and operational plans for a new trade remedies framework alongside its wider preparations for EU Exit.