Written Question·Department for Business and Trade·UIN 100057

Trade Agreements: Digital Technology

Tabled: 15 December 2025
Answered: 18 December 2025
Named Day

Question

Alison Griffiths

ConservativeBognor Regis and Littlehampton

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assumptions his Department uses in relation to trade elasticities when modelling the long-term effects of UK accession to plurilateral digital trade agreements.

Answer

Chris Bryant
The Department for Business and Trade has not undertaken modelling of the long-term effects of UK accession to plurilateral digital trade agreements. Consequently, no assumptions regarding trade elasticities have been applied in this context.The OECD has ...

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