Oral QuestionDepartment for International Trade

What recent assessment she has made of the potential effect on trade of the suspension of export licences for UK pork processing plants trading with China.

Tabled: 23 September 2021Answered: 21 October 2021

Asked by

Dave Doogan

Scottish National PartyAngus and Perthshire Glens

Answering Minister

the Secretary of State for International Trade

Answer from Hansard

The Prime Minister

My hon. Friend is a fantastic champion for Derby. She is right: whether it is the workforce I met at Alstom or the workers at Hitachi in County Durham, we will support our rail industry, providing certainty that delivers jobs, investment and security. I met those workforces. I know how worried they were a year ago, as she rightly says, when the previous Government were in charge. I am really proud that Derby will be the home of Great British Railways, because we are bringing railways back into public ownership to provide better services for passengers, cutting delays and cancellations and boosting growth across the country.