Trade Agreements: New Zealand

(asked on 8th November 2021) - View Source

Question to the Department for International Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what changes she plans to make to the methodology set out in the UK-New Zealand FTA strategic approach, published on 17 July 2020, for calculating the (a) total, (b) regional and (c) sectoral impact of the UK-New Zealand trade agreement; and for what reasons those changes will be made.


Answered by
Penny Mordaunt Portrait
Penny Mordaunt
Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons
This question was answered on 18th November 2021

The government is committed to a transparent approach to its new free trade agreements and will publish an independently scrutinised impact assessment when treaty text is laid in parliament.

As part of the process towards producing all of its analysis, the Department for International Trade constantly reviews and improves its methodologies to ensure they are as robust and accurate as possible and reflects best global practice. The methodology underlying our analysis and the rationale for methodological changes will be described in full in our published impact assessments.

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