Question to the Department for International Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what discussions negotiators from her Department have had with their counterparts from (a) Australia and (b) New Zealand on the inclusion of prohibition clauses on duty drawback and exemption in the proposed upcoming free trade agreements with those countries.

HM Government will carefully assess and negotiate the terms of future trade agreements with Australia, New Zealand, Canada and Mexico in order to secure provisions that benefit all of the United Kingdom, including producers in our new freeports.

Our trade deal with the EU contains no duty drawback prohibitions, nor does the agreement with Turkey now in force, which is closely based upon it.