Select committee: Business, Innovation, Science and Trade Committee
Recommendation 5
10th Report – US Economic Prosperity Deal
Published 14 Sep 2025
Addressed to Department for Business and Trade
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Recommendation (the committee's words)
Going forward, we recommend the Government now maximises pressure on the US, beginning during and continuing after the President’s State Visit, to agree final terms for a lasting, Economic Prosperity Deal that de-risks the threat of future sectoral tariffs, maximise predictability and that where the UK has secured terms which are second best to the EU, we aim to improve them. (Recommendation, Paragraph 50)
From: Business, Innovation, Science and Trade Committee, 10th Report – US Economic Prosperity Deal (HC 1306), 14 September 2025
Government response
The government responded to the whole report on 28 November 2025 (deadline 14 November 2025).
Summary written by Accountability Index from the government's response. It is not the government's own words.The government's response sets out its work on the Economic Prosperity Deal (EPD) and states that discussions with the US on the full scope of the deal are continuing, without stating that it accepts or rejects the Committee's recommendations as a whole.
- On parliamentary scrutiny and a Commons debate, the government states that it "will continue to keep the House fully informed" and that any final EPD agreement "will be scrutinised by Parliament in line with established procedures". It does not set out a timetable or commit to a debate.
- On steel and aluminium, it says the UK "will remain the only country in the world to benefit from a preferential 25% rate" and commits to publishing its steel strategy "by the end of this year".
- On the Trade Remedies Authority, the government is "seeking to introduce legislation as soon as parliamentary time allows", with further details "in due course".
- On forced labour, it says it is "actively examining" existing measures and "considering" approaches including mandatory due diligence and import controls, as part of a review of responsible business conduct.