Written Question·Department for Business and Trade·UIN 72359
Economic Situation: Subversion
Tabled: 29 August 2025
Answered: 4 September 2025
Question
Ben Obese-Jecty
Conservative — Huntingdon
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment he has made of the threat posed to UK interests by economic coercion by adversaries.
Answer
Mr Douglas AlexanderThe weaponisation of trade for geopolitical purposes is growing. This Government recognised those risks in our National Security Strategy, and why the Department of Business and Trade announced in the Trade Strategy that we would reform our trade defence ...
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