Question follow-through · 51344
Canada: Overseas Trade
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps he is taking to help increase (a) trade and (b) trading opportunities between the UK and Canada.
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 12 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 14 May 2025
- Answer
- 19 May 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
12 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps he is taking to help increase (a) trade and (b) trading opportunities between the UK and Canada.
14 May 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
19 May 2025
Answer published
Canada is one of the UK’s closest allies and we are taking various steps to increase UK-Canada trade. Our trading relationship was worth £28 billion in 2024, up 10% in current prices on 2023, and is underpinned by the UK-Canada Trade Continuity Agreement....
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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