Question to the Department for Business and Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of commencing direct maritime shipping routes from the UK to the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus on levels of trade with that country.

I refer the Hon Member for East Antrim to the answer given to him by my Hon. Friend for Aldershot, the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Europe) at the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, on 4^th April 2023, UIN: 175568.

The Department for Business and Trade refer all north of Cyprus trade enquiries from UK companies to the Turkish Cypriot Chamber of Commerce for further information.