Question follow-through · 123619
Development Aid: Minority Groups
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if she will make an assessment of the number of minority tradespeople that her Department has provided assistance to abroad in each year for which information is available.
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- Answering body
- Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
- Tabled
- 25 Mar 2026
- Target answer date
- 13 Apr 2026
- Answer
- 13 Apr 2026 · 19 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
25 Mar 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if she will make an assessment of the number of minority tradespeople that her Department has provided assistance to abroad in each year for which information is available.
13 Apr 2026
Target answer date
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13 Apr 2026
Answer published
No such assessment is readily available, but the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office publishes regular updates of the work it has done to promote investment and growth in the UK and in partner countries around the world in the Department's annual...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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