Question follow-through · 47580
Department for Business and Trade: China
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if his Department will publish the minutes from meetings between the Minister of Trade and the Chief of Defence Staff and their Chinese interlocutors on the week commencing 7 April 2025.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 23 Apr 2025
- Target answer date
- 28 Apr 2025
- Answer
- 28 Apr 2025 · 5 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
23 Apr 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if his Department will publish the minutes from meetings between the Minister of Trade and the Chief of Defence Staff and their Chinese interlocutors on the week commencing 7 April 2025.
28 Apr 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
28 Apr 2025
Answer published
In line with the practice of successive administrations, detailed minutes of ministerial meetings - even those that are declared publicly - are not normally disclosed.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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