| Heading: |
Trade Agreements: Switzerland |
| Question ID: |
1747765 |
| UIN: |
18393 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2024-12-06 |
| Asking Member ID: |
4716 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Ruth Jones
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| Asking Member handle: |
RuthJonesLabour
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
@RuthJonesLabour
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what progress his Department has made on including an ambitious intellectual property protection framework in the UK-Swiss free trade deal. |
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true |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2024-12-11 |
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false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
632 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Mr Douglas Alexander
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
Mr Douglas Alexander
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| Answer text: |
The fifth round of negotiations on an enhanced free trade agreement with Switzerland took place in London in October 2024. As part of that, negotiations on intellectual property continued to advance across a number of rights areas. The UK aims to agree a ... |
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| Answering body ID: |
214 |
| Answering body name: |
Department for Business and Trade |
| Tweeted: |
true |