Question to the Department for International Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, pursuant to his oral contribution of 16 July 2018, Official Report column 42, if he will provide an example of the provisions in a future trade agreement for which (a) changes to legislation are required and (b) there are no existing powers.

We are currently consulting on four future trade agreements and it would not be appropriate at this stage to comment on what provisions might be included in future agreements.

As we leave the EU, the Government is committed to ensuring that Parliament receives the right level of scrutiny of our future trade arrangements.