Trade Agreements: Mexico

(asked on 6th September 2022) - View Source

Question to the Department for International Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, how many officials in her Department are working on trade negotiations with Mexico.


Answered by
Conor Burns Portrait
Conor Burns
This question was answered on 27th September 2022

The Department for International Trade (DIT) operates a flexible resourcing model to maximise efficiency across our Free Trade Agreement (FTA) negotiations. The Department is currently delivering seven FTA negotiations and the number of staff working on these at any point in time will change depending on the stage and scale of the deal. Staff also often work across multiple negotiations so it is not possible to quantify the number for each negotiation.

As of August 2022, DIT had approximately 460 staff working in the Trade Negotiations Group. This figure does not include other staff in DIT who also contribute to trade negotiations.

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