Question to the Department for Business and Trade:

To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the impact of the Northern Ireland Protocol on creating a barrier to trade deals between the UK and the US.

The Windsor Framework is not a barrier to trade deals. The United Kingdom has secured trade agreements with 73 countries and territories, plus the EU, while ensuring compliance with the Windsor Framework. These agreements include free trade agreements with Australia and New Zealand, which entered force on 31 May 2023, and the Comprehensive and Progressive Trans-Pacific Partnership, which the United Kingdom joined on 16 July 2023, and which came into effect on 15 December 2024.