Question follow-through · 75832
Geology: UK Trade with EU
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps he is taking to help make the process of moving geological samples between the UK and the EU (a) faster and (b) easier.
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 8 Sept 2025
- Target answer date
- 11 Sept 2025
- Answer
- 16 Sept 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
8 Sept 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps he is taking to help make the process of moving geological samples between the UK and the EU (a) faster and (b) easier.
11 Sept 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
16 Sept 2025
Answer published
There are no plans at present to amend the regulatory regime.The British Geological Survey (BGS) is an active member of European GeoSurveys (EGS). The EGS constitution is based on facilitating geological survey collaboration to support development and imp...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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