Question to the Department for International Trade:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what progress they have made in negotiating free trade deals.

The United Kingdom is currently in negotiations with the United States, Australia and New Zealand to establish new Free Trade Agreements. We are also negotiating with a number of markets to establish continuity of trade, as we leave the transition period on 31^st December. We reached one such agreement in principle for an enhanced trade agreement with Japan on 11^th September, and we will be presenting final text to the House shortly.

My department published an update on the third round of negotiations with the US on GOV.UK on 12^th August. The fourth round of negotiations have been running from 8^th September and are due to close tomorrow, on the 18^th September.

Over the summer, we have also held productive first round negotiations with Australia and New Zealand. Second rounds are scheduled for the week commencing 21^st September and late October respectively.