Question follow-through · 70575
Cyprus: Trade Promotion
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether trade envoys are permitted to visit northern Cyprus.
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 29 Aug 2025
- Target answer date
- 2 Sept 2025
- Answer
- 12 Sept 2025 · 14 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
29 Aug 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether trade envoys are permitted to visit northern Cyprus.
2 Sept 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
12 Sept 2025
Answer published
While carrying out official duties Trade Envoys are representatives of Government and are therefore expected to follow Government policy. The Government’s long-standing position of not recognising the self-declared ‘Turkish Republic of North Cyprus’ remai...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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