Question follow-through · 4875
Office for Investment
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether his Department plans to review the Office for Investment's strategy.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 9 Sept 2024
- Target answer date
- 11 Sept 2024
- Answer
- 17 Sept 2024 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
9 Sept 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether his Department plans to review the Office for Investment's strategy.
11 Sept 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
17 Sept 2024
Answer published
The Office for Investment is a small joint unit between 10 Downing Street and the Department for Business and Trade (DBT), the department responsible for investment into the UK. It is a delivery-focused team whose strategic objectives are fully aligned wi...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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