Question to the Department for International Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, pursuant to the Answer of 21 November 2017 to Question 113264, if will he establish a contingency plan for the eventuality that the WTO will not allow the UK an Annex on Article II (Most-Favoured-Nation Treatment) for exemptions under GATS.

The UK has been a Member of the World Trade Organization (WTO) since its founding in 1995. Thereby, the UK already has established exemptions to the Most-Favoured-Nation Treatment obligation under the terms of the GATS Annex on Article II Exemptions. As the UK leaves the EU, we intend to set out in a separate list the exemptions that already apply to the UK, under the terms of the Annex on Article II Exemptions.