Oral Question·Department for Business and Trade
“If he will make a statement on his departmental responsibilities.”
Tabled: 6 March 2025Answered: 13 March 2025
Asked by
Seamus Logan
Scottish National Party — Aberdeenshire North and Moray East
Answering Minister
the Secretary of State for Business and Trade
Answer from Hansard
The Minister for Trade Policy and Economic Security (Mr Douglas Alexander)
I can assure the House that we are in regular touch with the Scotch Whisky Association. We fully appreciate the significance and importance of that industry not just to Scotland but to the UK. As my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State said, we are well served by a serious Prime Minister in these serious times, which affords us the opportunity for a dialogue in trade frankly not available to other countries.