The Department has made additional commitments beyond the statutory framework under the Constitutional Reform and Governance Act 2010 (CRAG) for Parliamentary scrutiny of trade agreements, but the Parliamentary committees responsible for trade agreements scrutiny have called for Parliament to have a stronger formal role.75 We expressed concerns that the Department did not share proper information in a timely manner given that scrutiny of trade agreements is important to ensure that people understand trade deals and that members of Parliament can justify them to constituents. For example, sharing of the text of the Japan agreement by the Department was delayed and the International Trade Committee did not have the full time it expected to scrutinise the agreement.76 Although the Department shared the final agreement with Australia three months ahead of triggering CRAG, we did not feel that it was generous enough given that that the International Trade Committee needs to produce a report alongside.77