Question to the Department for International Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, pursuant to the Answer of 20 February to Question 63568, if he will take steps to include a clause on compliance with Article 18 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in future bilateral trade and investment agreements; and if he will make a statement.

Existing EU trade agreements refer to commitment to the United Nation’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights as a whole.

I refer the hon Member for East Ham to the answer I gave him on 20 February 2017, UIN 63568.