Select committee: International Agreements Committee
Government Response to Scrutiny of international agreements: UK accessesion to the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership Report
Published 8 May 2024
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At a glance
The government's response
This document responds to 6th Report - Scrutiny of international agreements: UK accession to the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership.
This is the government's response, published 8 May 2024.
Summary written by Accountability Index from the government's response. It is not the government's own words.The government welcomes the Committee's conclusions on UK accession to the CPTPP and says it is "strongly of the view" that accession will bring wide-spread benefits, while responding to individual recommendations in detail.
- On a standing secretariat, the government says it "will consider this issue as part of the upcoming discussions with other CPTPP Parties on the General Review".
- On a published trade policy framework, it points to existing documents and says that publishing one may "risk revealing our positions, undermining our ability to negotiate effectively".
- On future accessions, it says it "will take that into account as we develop our approach" to scrutiny, and that its "firm intention" is that any future accession would be subject to CRaG scrutiny.
- On business engagement, it describes the Free Trade Agreement Utilisation team's work, including CPTPP guidance being prepared and an Indo-Pacific Roadshow "taking place in June 2024".
What the committee recommended
This is a government response document, so it has no recommendations of its own.