Question follow-through · 121930
Investment and Trade Agreements: Hong Kong
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether his Department has assessed whether future UK trade or investment engagement involving Hong Kong should take account of reported prison conditions and maltreatment of political prisoners.
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 18 Mar 2026
- Target answer date
- 23 Mar 2026
- Answer
- 31 Mar 2026 · 13 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
18 Mar 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether his Department has assessed whether future UK trade or investment engagement involving Hong Kong should take account of reported prison conditions and maltreatment of political prisoners.
23 Mar 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
31 Mar 2026
Answer published
Reports of mistreatment in Hong Kong’s prisons are deeply concerning. The Government continues to express serious concerns about the erosion of rights and freedoms in Hong Kong, including the implications of recent national security measures, and monitors...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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