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Trade Agreements: Australia and New Zealand

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Question for Department for International Trade

UIN 141217, tabled on 16 March 2022

Question

Jo Stevens
Labour
Cardiff Central
Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, if she will publish her Department's impact assessments of the effect of trade deals with (a) Australia and (b) New Zealand on Wales.

This answer is the replacement for a previous holding answer.

Answer

Penny Mordaunt
Conservative
Portsmouth North
Commons

Answered on

22 March 2022

The Department for International Trade’s impact assessments of the UK-Australia and UK-New Zealand Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) were published on 17th December 2021 and 28th February 2022 respectively, and include impacts on the nations and regions of the UK and on sectors of the economy.

They also describe the potential impacts on the agri-food sectors for the UK in section 4 of the document. Sectoral impacts by nation and region are not available.

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