Department for Business and Trade written question – answered at on 18 December 2025.
Alison Griffiths
Conservative, Bognor 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.
Chris Bryant
Minister of State (Department for Business and Trade)
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 published analysis on the potential economic impacts of concluding the WTO’s Joint Initiative on E-Commerce. However, this analysis is not UK-specific.
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