Question to the Department for International Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, pursuant to the Answer of 14 November 2017 to Question 110584, on Trade Agreements: Arbitration, what estimate he has made of the cost of the development of the policy, legislative and operational plans for a new trade remedies framework.

The Department for International Trade is still in the process of establishing a trade remedies framework. It will be subject to Parliamentary approval and the final financial implications of this process will depend on the outcome of negotiations with the European Union and on policy decisions yet to be taken. The Department will continue to invest the necessary resources to develop the policy, legislative and operational plans for a new trade remedies framework alongside its wider preparations for EU Exit.