Question follow-through · 13123
Trade Agreements: USA
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether he has had recent discussions with his US counterpart on a free trade agreement.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 6 Nov 2024
- Target answer date
- 11 Nov 2024
- Answer
- 11 Nov 2024 · 5 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
6 Nov 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether he has had recent discussions with his US counterpart on a free trade agreement.
11 Nov 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
11 Nov 2024
Answer published
Ministers and officials regularly engage with their US counterparts to discuss ways to strengthen the UK-US trading relationship, already worth £304 billion. The Secretary of State met US Trade Representative Katherine Tai at the G20 Summit in October whe...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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