Question to the Department for International Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, how many consultations by his Department (a) are open, (b) are closed awaiting a Government response and (c) have been initiated since 2016.

The Department for International Trade currently has no open consultations.

Four consultations were launched in last year, enabling the public to provide their views on potential future trade agreement negotiations with the USA, Australia, New Zealand, and on the UK potentially seeking accession to join the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership. We had over 600,000 responses to the consultations. A government response for each will be published before any formal free trade agreement negotiations commence.

Five consultations have been initiated since 2016, the four in 2018 and a call for evidence in 2017 to identify UK interest in existing UK trade remedy measures.