Trade Agreements: Australia and New Zealand

(asked on 16th March 2022) - View Source

Question to the Department for International Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, whether the Government conducted impact assessments of the effect of trade deals with (a) Australia and (b) New Zealand on (a) the agriculture sector and (b) all other sectors in Wales.


Answered by
Penny Mordaunt Portrait
Penny Mordaunt
Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons
This question was answered on 22nd March 2022

The Department for International Trade’s impact assessments of the UK-Australia and UK-New Zealand Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) were published on 17th December 2021 and 28th February 2022 respectively, and include impacts on the nations and regions of the UK and on sectors of the economy.

They also describe the potential impacts on the agri-food sectors for the UK in section 4 of the document. Sectoral impacts by nation and region are not available.

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