Question follow-through · 85114
Trade Agreements: Canada
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps he is taking to restart negotiations for a free trade agreement between the UK and Canada.
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 27 Oct 2025
- Target answer date
- 29 Oct 2025
- Answer
- 3 Nov 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
27 Oct 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps he is taking to restart negotiations for a free trade agreement between the UK and Canada.
29 Oct 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
3 Nov 2025
Answer published
There are no plans to resume FTA negotiations, but growing our bilateral trade remains a shared priority, which is why the two Prime Ministers established the UK-Canada Economic and Trade Working Group with the objective of growing bilateral trade, includ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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