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Trade Agreements: European Union

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Question for Cabinet Office

UIN 47198, tabled on 23 April 2025

Question

Valerie Vaz
Labour
Walsall and Bloxwich
Commons

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will take steps to begin negotiations for a new trade agreement with the EU.

Answer

Nick Thomas-Symonds
Labour
Torfaen
Commons

Answered on

28 April 2025

I am responding as the Minister responsible for EU relations. This government is committed to improving the UK’s trade and investment relationship with the EU to tackle unnecessary barriers to trade, including by seeking to negotiate a SPS agreement. We are working with the EU to identify areas where we can strengthen cooperation for mutual benefit, and as part of this we will welcome EU leaders to the UK for the first UK-EU Leaders’ Summit on 19 May.

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