Question to the Department for International Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, whether her Department has carried out opinion surveys in 2022 on the attitudes of people in the UK about a free trade deal with the (a) Gulf Co-operation Council and (b) countries within the Gulf Co-operation Council.

The regular Public Attitudes to Trade Tracker asks the public about awareness of the Gulf Cooperation Council, and support for entering formal trade talks with the bloc, in some waves of the survey. Polling for this survey has been carried out in 2022. Findings are published regularly at the collections page: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/public-attitudes-to-trade-tracker . The Department also carries out research for internal use relevant to ongoing negotiations. Details of these are not released due to negotiation sensitivities.