Question follow-through · 31768
World Economic Forum
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how many officials from his Department attended the World Economic Forum 2025.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 21 Feb 2025
- Target answer date
- 25 Feb 2025
- Answer
- 3 Mar 2025 · 10 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
21 Feb 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how many officials from his Department attended the World Economic Forum 2025.
25 Feb 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
3 Mar 2025
Answer published
Five officials from the Department for Business and Trade attended the World Economic Forum 2025, accompanying two ministers. This is inclusive of one special advisor.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Fair Work Agency
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Industrial Strategy Council
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Industrial Strategy Council: Public Appointments
18 Mar 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what criteria he used to appoint members of the Industrial Strategy Council.
Regulator of Community Interest Companies
21 Mar 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what estimate he has made of the potential savings to the public purse of abolishing the Office of the Regulator of Community Interest Companies.
Food: East Midlands
2 Apr 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what recent steps his Department has taken to support the food sector in (a) Lincolnshire and (b) the East Midlands.
Competition and Markets Authority: Apprentices
7 Apr 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if the Competitions and Markets Authority has offered apprenticeships since 2010.
Fireworks: Anti-social Behaviour and Vandalism
17 Apr 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what guidance his Department is providing to local authorities to help them (a) manage and (b) enforce firework safety regulations in areas where firework misuse has led to (i) vandalism and (ii) antis
Fireworks: Anti-social Behaviour
28 Apr 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the Fireworks Regulations 2004 on tackling the purchase of fireworks for anti-social use.
Fireworks: Anti-social Behaviour
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Fireworks: Safety
28 Apr 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what recent assessment he has made of the potential impact of the (a) unregulated sale and (b) misuse of fireworks on (i) public safety and (ii) property.