Question follow-through · 69382

Foreign Relations: Scotland

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, whether he has had discussions with the Scottish Government on their role in international affairs.

answeredScotland Office

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Answering body
Scotland Office
Tabled
21 Jul 2025
Target answer date
1 Sept 2025
Answer
2 Sept 2025 · 43 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 21 Jul 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, whether he has had discussions with the Scottish Government on their role in international affairs.

  2. 1 Sept 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 2 Sept 2025

    Answer published

    International relations is, and will remain, a matter reserved solely to the UK Government. The terms of the International Relations Concordat of 2013 – agreed between the UK Government and Ministers of the devolved Governments (DGs) – reaffirm that the D...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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