Question follow-through · 100537
Africa: Free Trade
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps her Department has taken to co-ordinate the Africa Approach with the African Continental Free Trade Area.
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- Answering body
- Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
- Tabled
- 16 Dec 2025
- Target answer date
- 18 Dec 2025
- Answer
- 29 Dec 2025 · 13 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
16 Dec 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps her Department has taken to co-ordinate the Africa Approach with the African Continental Free Trade Area.
18 Dec 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
29 Dec 2025
Answer published
The Government's new Africa Approach was the subject of extensive consultation with African countries, multilateral institutions and others. The priorities set out in the statement published on 15 December (UIN HCWS1168) reflect the feedback received duri...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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