Question follow-through · 723
Trade Agreements: Academic Freedom
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether he is taking steps to ensure commitments to academic freedom are discussed in the negotiation of trade agreements.
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 18 Jul 2024
- Target answer date
- 22 Jul 2024
- Answer
- 24 Jul 2024 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
18 Jul 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether he is taking steps to ensure commitments to academic freedom are discussed in the negotiation of trade agreements.
22 Jul 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
24 Jul 2024
Answer published
The Department for Business and Trade are currently assessing progress across the programme of Free Trade Agreements (FTA) currently under negotiation and determining which matters will be raised in negotiations. The Department's trade deals will be align...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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