Committees

Business and Trade Committee

Commons Select Committee

The Business and Trade Committee scrutinises the policy, spending and administration of the Department for Business and Trade and its public bodies. You can follow the Committee on X (formerly Twitter) @CommonsBTC.

Our Sub-Committee on Economic Security, Arms and Export Controls scrutinises key elements of the UK Government’s economic security regime, and considers whether more needs to be done to ensure that its strategy can meet the challenges of an increasingly volatile geopolitical landscape.

Previous publications on the scrutiny of International Trade can be found on the website of the International Trade Committee, which was disbanded in April 2023.

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Reports, special reports and government responses

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5th Report – How to strengthen UK-EU relations
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4th Report - Post Office Horizon scandal redress: Unfinished business: Government response
Work Post Office Horizon scandal: fast and fair redress (Non-inquiry session)
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3rd Report - Make Work Pay: Employment Rights Bill
Inquiry Make Work Pay: Employment Rights Bill
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Correspondence

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Letter to Minister of State for Trade Policy and Economic Security relating to the Government's consultation on the response to US tariffs, 16 April 2025
Inquiry Export led growth
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Letter to the Trade Remedies Authority relating to trade diversion and the dumping of goods into the UK market, 14 April 2025
Inquiry Export led growth
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Letter to the Minister for Services, Small Business and Exports relating to Post Office Horizon redress schemes, 10 April 2025
Work Post Office Horizon scandal: fast and fair redress (Non-inquiry session)
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Oral evidence transcripts

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26 March 2025
Inquiry Industrial Strategy
Witnesses Department for Business and Trade, and Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Ministry of Defence, Ministry of Defence, and Department for Business and Trade
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25 March 2025
Inquiry Export led growth
Witnesses Walpole, Pernod Ricard, and Intralink
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Oral Evidence
25 March 2025
Inquiry Export led growth
Witnesses TheCityUK, Universities UK, and Schroders
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Written evidence

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International Meat Trade Association (IMTA) (ELG0001)
Inquiry Export led growth
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Manchester Airports Group (ELG0002)
Inquiry Export led growth
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West London Chambers of Commerce (ELG0003)
Inquiry Export led growth
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Other publications

Government Responses
The Government has undertaken to respond to most committee reports within two months, although there are exceptions to this rule.
11 published
Formal Minutes
Formal minutes produced for committee meetings.
19 published
Scrutiny evidence
Evidence received in the course of conducting legislative scrutiny.
1 published
Attendance statistics
Statistics for the attendance at committee meetings.
11 published
Estimate memoranda
Explanatory memoranda that accompany Government Estimates.
97 published
Older evidence
Written evidence and oral evidence transcripts transferred from our archive website.
12 published
Other documents
Other documents connected to the committee's work.
6 published
Pre-2010 publications
Committee documents published online before May 2010.

Contact us

  • Email: commonsbtc@parliament.uk
  • Phone: 020 7219 8586 (General enquiries) | 020 7219 4984 (media enquiries)
  • Address: Business and Trade Committee, House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA