Question to the Department for International Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what progress her Department has made on negotiating a free trade agreement with Pakistan.

HM Government continues to work with Pakistan to improve the terms of our trading relationship.

Pakistan is already granted trade preferences under the Enhanced Framework of our Generalised Scheme of Preferences (GSP) and we are currently reviewing GSP to make it simpler and more generous for both our partners and businesses to use.

A public consultation on GSP will be launched in the coming months.