Question follow-through · 36160
Trade Agreements: India
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of a free trade agreement with India.
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 6 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 10 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 14 Mar 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
6 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of a free trade agreement with India.
10 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
14 Mar 2025
Answer published
The Business and Trade Secretary was in Delhi in February to relaunch negotiations for a trade deal with India and made good progress in building momentum towards a deal that will strengthen economic growth across the UK.A trade deal with India could impr...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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