Question follow-through · 96599
Trade Agreements: Small Businesses
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what further steps he will take to help small businesses take advantage of the UK's trade deals.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 3 Dec 2025
- Target answer date
- 8 Dec 2025
- Answer
- 8 Dec 2025 · 5 calendar days after tabling
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More questions by this MP on Economy and business
- Department for Business and Trade: Credit Unions · 9 Feb 2026
- Small Businesses: Skilled Workers · 4 Mar 2026
- Business: Training · 4 Mar 2026
- British Business Bank · 10 Mar 2026
Shared topic keywords suggest a connection; they do not establish a follow-up.
Votes on this topic
- Draft Code of Practice on Electronic and Workplace Ballots for Statutory Trade Union Ballots · 15 Jul 2026
- Draft Trade Unions (Permissible Means of Voting) and Employment Rights (Unfair Dismissal) (Amendment) Order 2026 · 15 Jul 2026
- Taxation (Energy and Vehicles) Bill Committee: New Clause 5 · 1 Jul 2026
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Recorded timeline
3 Dec 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what further steps he will take to help small businesses take advantage of the UK's trade deals.
8 Dec 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
8 Dec 2025
Answer published
Our department is helping businesses take advantage of trade deals through engagement, guidance, and practical support. Events to promote understanding of FTAs have been held in all parts of the UK this year, including during International Trade Week.Guid...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Department for Business and Trade: Credit Unions
9 Feb 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether they will require their department and agencies to offer payroll deductions to all employees to enable them to join a credit union.
Small Businesses: Skilled Workers
4 Mar 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what grant funding is available to help support the development of commercial and business skills in small and medium-sized enterprise.
Business: Training
4 Mar 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what information his Department holds on the proportion of UK businesses with dedicated budgets for training.
British Business Bank
10 Mar 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether he has considered allowing the British Business Bank to a) accept deposits and b) run a pilot scheme allowing it to lend directly to i) businesses and ii) community housing groups in areas wher