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Oral evidence: UK trade negotiations: Agreement with Australia, HC 117

Oral evidence, 29 June 2022.

Witnesses

Rt Hon. Anne-Marie Trevelyan and Crawford Falconer.

Chair

Welcome to the International Trade Committee’s session on Australia. We had called the Secretary of State, Anne-Marie Trevelyan, but we are told that she will not be coming this morning, to the unanimous disappointment of all members of the Committee. We feel that this shows disrespect to the Committee, and we are very disappointed. We also feel that the CRaG report should be delayed to allow proper time for scrutiny. We think, unanimously, that this sets a very worrying precedent for the way the Government are dealing with scrutiny of their free trade agreements.