Question follow-through · 38659
Overseas Trade: Canada
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps he is taking to increase trade between the UK and Canada.
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 17 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 19 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 21 Mar 2025 · 4 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
17 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps he is taking to increase trade between the UK and Canada.
19 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
21 Mar 2025
Answer published
The UK is taking various steps to strengthen our bilateral trade relationship with Canada, which was worth £27 billion in the 12 months to September 2024, up 7% on the previous 12 months.This includes our work with Canada on their ratification of the UK’s...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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