Question follow-through · 51906
Biofuels: USA
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what discussions he has had with the bioethanol industry on the UK-US trade deal.
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 13 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 15 May 2025
- Answer
- 19 May 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
13 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what discussions he has had with the bioethanol industry on the UK-US trade deal.
15 May 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
19 May 2025
Answer published
Whenever a trade agreement of any sort is agreed, there will be domestic impacts if our trading partners have requested further access to the UK market. That is the case for the agreement on bioethanol. Senior officials from the Department for Business an...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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