Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what the reasons were for the time taken by her Department to lay Written Ministerial Statement HCWS533, on the EU-US Umbrella Agreement.

Following the conclusion of the EU-US Umbrella Agreement, a formal request for a Written Ministerial Statement was received from the House of Commons European Scrutiny Committee in January. Government clearance procedures allowed this statement to be laid on March 14th.