Question follow-through · 31657
Department for Business and Trade: Trade Agreements
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether he plans to change the number of staff in his Department working on new free trade agreements.
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 13 Feb 2025
- Target answer date
- 24 Feb 2025
- Answer
- 3 Mar 2025 · 18 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
13 Feb 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether he plans to change the number of staff in his Department working on new free trade agreements.
24 Feb 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
3 Mar 2025
Answer published
DBT's Trade Policy, Implementation and Negotiations (TPIN) Group operates a flexible resourcing model to maximise efficiency across its priorities. The Department has committed to delivering six Free Trade Agreement (FTA) negotiations alongside leading wo...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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