Question to the Department for International Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, whether she has made a recent assessment what trade barriers there are for businesses trading with the EU; and if she will make a statement.

This Government is working to break down trade barriers around the world, and that includes with the EU, where we are implementing our high-quality, zero quota and zero tariff Trade and Cooperation Agreement. A recent assessment of trade barriers is published in ‘Official Statistics: Market Access Barrier Statistics: financial year 2021-22’, where they are broken down by geographic regions, including Europe. In the year to March 2022, 47 market access barriers were resolved in Europe, an 11.9% increase year on year.