Written Question·Department for Business and Trade·UIN 38273

Trade Agreements: USA

Tabled: 13 March 2025
Answered: 18 March 2025

Question

Clive Jones

Liberal DemocratWokingham

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what are the criteria by which it would be determined whether any prospective trade treaty between the UK and the US that does not deal with substantially all trade would be subject to scrutiny under t

Answer

Mr Douglas Alexander
Part 2 of the Constitutional Reform and Governance Act 2010 is the statutory framework for the parliamentary scrutiny of all legally binding international agreements, regardless of the extent to which the relevant international agreement deals with trade,...

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