Question follow-through · 51339
Treasury: Training
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps she is taking to ensure that officials in her Department are adequately trained on potential economic statecraft mechanisms that could be deployed against the UK.
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 12 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 14 May 2025
- Answer
- 20 May 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
12 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps she is taking to ensure that officials in her Department are adequately trained on potential economic statecraft mechanisms that could be deployed against the UK.
14 May 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
20 May 2025
Answer published
The Government possesses a range of diplomatic, economic, trade and other tools to respond to economic statecraft mechanisms if they are deployed against the UK. We work with the G7 and a range of other close partners to strengthen our joint resilience in...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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