Speeches

David Lammy – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office

The below Parliamentary question was asked by David Lammy on 2016-09-05.

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many additional staff have been deployed to the UK’s mission to the UN in Geneva to work on World Trade Organisation (WTO) policy and to renegotiate the UK’s membership of the WTO since the EU referendum.

Alok Sharma

A Deputy Permanent Representative to cover the WTO is being appointed. Further decisions will be taken in due course to provide the additional staff required in Geneva to work on the UK’s evolving status in the WTO, and in the longer term to cover all WTO business.