Ministerial statement announcing the laying of a report pursuant to Section 42 of the Agriculture Act 2020 on a free trade agreement Notes
A step of type Business step.
Under section 42 of the Agriculture Act 2020, a free trade agreement that includes measures applicable to trade in agricultural products may not be laid before Parliament under Part 2 of the Constitutional Reform and Governance Act 2010 unless the Secretary of State has first laid a report complying with subsection (2) before Parliament. A written statement may be made announcing the report has been laid.
Scope note: The prompt for this step would be seeing the laying of the report under Other Papers in the Lords Papers section of Lords Business.
Link note: WMS
Date note: Date of statement