Question follow-through · 113089
Overseas Trade: Italy
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how many staff in his Department are working on trade with Italy; and how many he plans to have working on trade with that country in each of the next five years.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 12 Feb 2026
- Target answer date
- 23 Feb 2026
- Answer
- 24 Feb 2026 · 12 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
12 Feb 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how many staff in his Department are working on trade with Italy; and how many he plans to have working on trade with that country in each of the next five years.
23 Feb 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
24 Feb 2026
Answer published
The Department for Business and Trade (DBT) is reshaping its overseas footprint to maximise UK economic growth in line with the Trade, Industrial and Small Business Strategies. Our future network will focus on priority markets and growth driving sectors a...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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