PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (22 October 2014)

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what work his Department has conducted on identifying specific policy areas and sectors for which the UK will seek exemptions from the scope of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership; and what representations the UK has made to the EU on exemption of such policy areas or sectors.

Asked by:
Ian Murray (Labour)

The Government has consistently pushed for an ambitious agreement under the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership negotiations in line with the recently published mandate.

The European Commission has explicitly ruled out public services from the scope of any market liberalisation in TTIP, and it has therefore not been necessary to discuss any exclusions related to specific public services.

The Commission has provided further details on the treatment of public services, available online at: http://trade.ec.europa.eu/doclib/docs/2014/may/tradoc_152462.pdf

Answered by:
Matt Hancock (Conservative)
28 October 2014