Question follow-through · 55739
Overseas Trade: Commonwealth
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what recent steps he has taken to encourage trade between Commonwealth countries.
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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, what recent steps he has taken to encourage trade between Commonwealth countries.
3 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
5 Jun 2025
Answer published
The UK is committed to working with Commonwealth partners and institutions to further strengthen intra-Commonwealth trade and investment. For example, at the 2024 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, the Foreign Secretary announced UK funding for the...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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