Question to the Department for International Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, on how many occasions and on what dates did senior officials in her Department (a) meet and (b) hold discussions with the Trump Administration during 2020 on a potential trade agreement with the US; and if she will make a statement.
The UK and US negotiating teams have held five productive rounds of negotiations for the UK-US Free Trade Agreement, beginning in May 2020. A significant proportion of legal text has been agreed across multiple chapters throughout the course of negotiations so far. All rounds were held virtually.
Links to the outcome statement for each of the five rounds are as follows:
Round One: https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-statements/detail/2020-05-18/hcws238
Round Two: https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-statements/detail/2020-06-30/hcws324
Round Three: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/negotiations-on-the-uks-future-trading-relationship-with-the-us-update--2
Round Four: https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-statements/detail/2020-09-22/hcws461
Round Five: https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-statements/detail/2020-11-02/hcws545