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Trade Agreements: Turkey
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps his Department is taking to help support small and medium-sized enterprises to prepare for new market access arising from free trade agreement negotiations with Turkey; and with how many bus
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 14 Oct 2025
- Target answer date
- 16 Oct 2025
- Answer
- 20 Oct 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
14 Oct 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps his Department is taking to help support small and medium-sized enterprises to prepare for new market access arising from free trade agreement negotiations with Turkey; and with how many bus
16 Oct 2025
Target answer date
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20 Oct 2025
Answer published
It is too soon to presume on the final outcomes of FTA negotiations with Türkiye but we have held two successful rounds of negotiations during which amongst other things both sides committed to a Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) chapter.During ou...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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