Question to the Department for International Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, how many staff worked for the Trade Remedies Authority as of July 2019.

• The Trade Remedies Authority (TRA) will be a non-departmental independent public body and will be established with the passing of the Trade Bill. Before that happens, and to provide certainty to UK businesses that they will not be exposed to injury from unfair trade practices, the Trade Remedies Investigations Directorate has been temporarily established within DIT to make assessments and recommendations in a respect of a trade remedy measure.
• There are currently (23^rd July 2019) 104 staff working for Trade Remedies Investigations Directorate and these will transfer to the TRA once it has been established.