Question follow-through · 10718
Trade Agreements
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether his Department plans to amend negotiating objectives in active free trade agreement negotiations.
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 23 Oct 2024
- Target answer date
- 28 Oct 2024
- Answer
- 28 Oct 2024 · 5 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
23 Oct 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether his Department plans to amend negotiating objectives in active free trade agreement negotiations.
28 Oct 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
28 Oct 2024
Answer published
Economic growth is the first priority of this government. To deliver on this, one of our first steps after taking office was to announce that we were resuming Free Trade Agreement (FTA) negotiations with: the Gulf Cooperation Council, India, Israel, South...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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