Question follow-through · 42391

Foreign Relations: China

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 24 March to Question 38340 on Foreign Relations: China, how many meetings with Chinese government officials have taken place at her Department since September 2024, broken down by (a) month

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Answering body
Treasury
Tabled
31 Mar 2025
Target answer date
2 Apr 2025
Answer
8 Apr 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 31 Mar 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 24 March to Question 38340 on Foreign Relations: China, how many meetings with Chinese government officials have taken place at her Department since September 2024, broken down by (a) month

  2. 2 Apr 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 8 Apr 2025

    Answer published

    As stated in my Answers of 14 and 24 March, UK Officials regularly engage with Chinese counterparts in order to further UK interests, cooperating on areas of mutual interest and challenging on areas where we disagree. This government is taking a consisten...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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