Department for International Trade written question – answered at on 16 April 2021.
Mark Pawsey
Conservative, Rugby
To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what steps she is taking to improve access for UK exporters to high growth global markets.
Graham Stuart
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for International Trade)
As an independent trading nation, we are building strong trading relationships across the world and removing market access barriers for British businesses. We have secured trade agreements with 66 non-EU countries, worth £217bn in 2019. We have formally applied to join the Comprehensive and Progressive Trans-Pacific Partnership, an agreement which removes tariffs on 95% of goods between members and will deepen UK access to key markets around the world, from Mexico to Malaysia.
Secretary of State was originally the title given to the two officials who conducted the Royal Correspondence under Elizabeth I. Now it is the title held by some of the more important Government Ministers, for example the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.
