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date	23/11/2017
answering body	Department for International Trade
answering dept id	202
answering dept short name	International Trade
answering dept sort name	International Trade
hansard heading	Small Businesses
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What plans his Department has to support Small Business Saturday.
tabling member constituency	Mid Dorset and North Poole
tabling member printed	Michael Tomlinson
uin	902509
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/11/2017 answer text <p>Small Business Saturday is a nation-wide grass roots campaign, celebrating small businesses across the UK. It is now in its fifth year and will take place on Saturday 2 December 2017.</p><p>DIT Ministers will be supporting this activity to promote our small businesses and their essential contribution to the UK economy.</p><p>I am hosting a roundtable in Portishead to discuss exporting issues for SMEs and to celebrate Small Business Saturday with the Department’s mobile Exporting is GREAT Hub, which many members have already used.</p> answering member constituency North Somerset answering member printed Dr Liam Fox question first answered 23/11/2017 13:39:00 answering member 223 label Biography information for Sir Liam Fox
tabling member	4497 label Biography information for Michael Tomlinson

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registered interest
date	20/03/2017
answering body	Department for International Trade
answering dept id	202
answering dept short name	International Trade
answering dept sort name	International Trade
hansard heading	Overseas Trade: South East Asia
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what recent discussions he has had with the governments of ASEAN countries on future trade and investment opportunities.
tabling member constituency	Mid Dorset and North Poole
tabling member printed	Michael Tomlinson
uin	909455
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2017 answer text <p>I recently visited Singapore and Vietnam, to reaffirm our strong bilateral economic and trade relations. In Singapore, we renewed our joint commitment to facilitating business partnerships and deepening our strong trade and investment ties. In Vietnam, we discussed taking forward trade and investment links to facilitate growth. In both countries, I reaffirmed the UK’s ongoing support towards the finalisation of existing negotiations for their respective Free Trade Agreements with the European Union.</p> answering member constituency North Somerset answering member printed Dr Liam Fox question first answered 23/03/2017 15:16:01 answering member 223 label Biography information for Sir Liam Fox
tabling member	4497 label Biography information for Michael Tomlinson

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registered interest
date	29/11/2016
answering body	Department for International Trade
answering dept id	202
answering dept short name	International Trade
answering dept sort name	International Trade
hansard heading	Overseas Trade: Israel
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what the current value is of UK-Israel bilateral trade; and what steps he plans to take to retain and strengthen the UK's trade relationship with Israel following the UK leaving the EU.
tabling member constituency	Mid Dorset and North Poole
tabling member printed	Michael Tomlinson
uin	55475
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/12/2016 answer text <p>Israel is an important trade partner for the UK. Bilateral trade in goods and services between the UK and Israel was £3.9 billion in 2015 (<strong>Source: Pink Book 2015</strong>).</p><p>With strong cooperation across multiple sectors the Department for International Trade is actively engaged in promotion activities to build UK exports across a range of sectors.</p><p>We will of course be making sustained efforts to retain and strengthen further these strong trade links with Israel when the UK leaves the EU.</p> answering member constituency Wyre Forest answering member printed Mark Garnier question first answered 06/12/2016 17:40:17 answering member 4074 label Biography information for Mark Garnier
tabling member	4497 label Biography information for Michael Tomlinson