Question follow-through · 107596
Business: Surrey
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what recent assessment he has made of the potential impact of free trade agreements on family businesses in Surrey.
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 21 Jan 2026
- Target answer date
- 26 Jan 2026
- Answer
- 26 Jan 2026 · 5 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
21 Jan 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what recent assessment he has made of the potential impact of free trade agreements on family businesses in Surrey.
26 Jan 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
26 Jan 2026
Answer published
We do not assess the direct effects of individual Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) on specific types of businesses within specific counties, nor do we monitor the way they are utilised in such granular detail.However, we do publish assessments of the potentia...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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