Question follow-through · 10450
Trade Agreements: China
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will make it his policy to ensure that the release of Jimmy Lai is a prerequisite to any trade agreement with China.
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 22 Oct 2024
- Target answer date
- 28 Oct 2024
- Answer
- 28 Oct 2024 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
22 Oct 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will make it his policy to ensure that the release of Jimmy Lai is a prerequisite to any trade agreement with China.
28 Oct 2024
Target answer date
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28 Oct 2024
Answer published
This Government has no plans to negotiate a Free Trade Agreement with China. This Government will stand firm on issues relating to human rights. My Right Honourable friend the Foreign Secretary raised the case of Jimmy Lai during his recent visit to China...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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