Question follow-through · 55735
Business: Commonwealth
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, which Ministers from his Department will attend the Commonwealth Business Summit in Windhoek between 18 and 20 June 2025.
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 30 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 3 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 5 Jun 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
30 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, which Ministers from his Department will attend the Commonwealth Business Summit in Windhoek between 18 and 20 June 2025.
3 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
5 Jun 2025
Answer published
No Ministers from the Department for Business and Trade will be attending the Business Summit in Windhoek, Namibia between 18 and 20 June 2025.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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