Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether any changes were made by the Government to either (a) the criteria used to judge bids for freeport status or (b) the relative weighting of that criteria, between 12 noon on 5 February 2021 and his Financial Statement on 3 March 2021.

The Ministry for Housing, Communities & Local Government published a note on 17 March, which set out the decision-making process for determining Freeport locations.