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1353934

registered interest
date	08/09/2021
answering body	Department for International Trade
answering dept id	202
answering dept short name	International Trade
answering dept sort name	International Trade
hansard heading	Trade Promotion
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what support and advice his Department provides to small and medium sized businesses to export to (a) Commonwealth countries and (b) non-Commonwealth countries.
tabling member constituency	Wolverhampton South West
tabling member printed	Stuart Anderson
uin	45266
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/09/2021 answer text <p>The Department for International Trade provides a range of support and advice services for SMEs looking to export both to the Commonwealth and beyond. These include a domestic network of International Trade Advisers (ITAs); hubs in Cardiff, Belfast, Edinburgh and Darlington; sector specialists in our Export &amp; Investment teams; grants from the Internationalisation Fund; in market advice from the Enhanced International Support Service; webinars, workshops and virtual events from the Export Academy; financial exporting support from UKEF’s specialist Export Finance Managers; and local market connections provided by DIT staff in 119 different countries around the world.</p><p>DIT is running the export and investment programme for the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham in 2022 and uses Commonwealth events to promote closer trading ties among the businesses of member states.</p> answering member constituency Beverley and Holderness answering member printed Graham Stuart question first answered 15/09/2021 17:00:20 answering member 1482 label Biography information for Graham Stuart
tabling member	4742 label Biography information for Stuart Anderson

1348113

registered interest
date	19/07/2021
answering body	Department for International Trade
answering dept id	202
answering dept short name	International Trade
answering dept sort name	International Trade
hansard heading	Trade Promotion
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, how many businesses have received support from his Department's network of international trade advisors since its launch in 2020, broken down by region of the UK.
tabling member constituency	Leeds Central
tabling member printed	Hilary Benn
uin	35506
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2021 answer text <p>The Department is not able to provide, reliably, the management information data requested. Published research from the Export Client Quality Survey reported 7,896 unique businesses supported by International Trade Advisors between April 2018 and March 2019.</p> answering member constituency Beverley and Holderness answering member printed Graham Stuart question first answered 22/07/2021 13:55:48 answering member 1482 label Biography information for Graham Stuart
tabling member	413 label Biography information for Hilary Benn

1348150

registered interest
date	19/07/2021
answering body	Department for International Trade
answering dept id	202
answering dept short name	International Trade
answering dept sort name	International Trade
hansard heading	Trade Promotion
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, how many meetings (a) he has and (b) other Ministers of his Department have attended with international trade advisers in the (i) Northern Powerhouse, (ii) Midlands Engine, (iii) South and (iv) London regions; and which Ministers were in attendance at each of those meetings.
tabling member constituency	Leeds Central
tabling member printed	Hilary Benn
uin	35510
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2021 answer text <p>According to Department for International Trade records, the Secretary of State did not attend any meetings with international trade advisers since February 2020.</p><p> </p><p>Other ministers have attended twenty-seven meetings with international trade advisers since February 2020. Ten meetings took place in the Northern Powerhouse region, one in the Midlands Engine, fifteen in the South, and one in London.</p><p> </p><p>Minister Stuart attended six meetings in the Northern Powerhouse, eleven in the South, one in the Midlands Engine, and one in London.</p><p> </p><p>Minister Jayawardena attended four meetings in the Northern Powerhouse, and four meetings in the South.</p> answering member constituency Beverley and Holderness answering member printed Graham Stuart question first answered 22/07/2021 15:36:06 answering member 1482 label Biography information for Graham Stuart
tabling member	413 label Biography information for Hilary Benn

1312096

registered interest
date	26/04/2021
answering body	Department for International Trade
answering dept id	202
answering dept short name	International Trade
answering dept sort name	International Trade
hansard heading	Trade Promotion
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what assessment she has made of the effectiveness of (a) the Tradeshow Access Programme, (b) the Music Export Growth Scheme, (c) the Internationalisation fund and (d) the E-exporting programme; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Harrow West
tabling member printed	Gareth Thomas
uin	187128
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/04/2021 answer text <p>The <strong>Tradeshow Access Programme</strong> (TAP) is monitored as part of the Department for International Trade’s (DIT) collective assessment of the support it offers to exporters. The latest TAP-specific Business Satisfaction figures are from the Export Client Survey, published July 2020, found here: <a href="https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fpublications%2Ftrade-export-client-survey-ecs&amp;data=04%7C01%7Cparly.pqs%40trade.gov.uk%7C9b5281a6e810462024f108d90a4eb956%7C8fa217ec33aa46fbad96dfe68006bb86%7C0%7C0%7C637552155497010870%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&amp;sdata=uAEiQG8tisaLqKassSOaXB4vYxEXTTYi2xkzsE5ZnDM%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/trade-export-client-survey-ecs</a>.</p><p> </p><p>DIT has appointed Ipsos MORI to deliver an evaluation of the <strong>Music Export Growth Scheme</strong>, the final report of which will be presented to DIT later in the year. This will form an important set of evidence for any future assessments of the scheme.</p><p> </p><p>The <strong>Internationalisation Fund</strong> (IF) has commissioned an independent contractor to evaluate IF over the lifetime of the project. The Fund opened in December 2020 so it is too early to assess its effectiveness, but a final assessment will be made when funding comes to an end in 2023.</p><p> </p><p>The <strong>E-Exporting Programme</strong> is monitored as part of DIT’s collective assessment of the support it offers to exporters. It is also evaluated by the overall number of companies it has supported including via its Selling Online Overseas tool, and customer feedback.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Beverley and Holderness answering member printed Graham Stuart question first answered 29/04/2021 11:37:34 answering member 1482 label Biography information for Graham Stuart
tabling member	177 label Biography information for Gareth Thomas

1312097

registered interest
date	26/04/2021
answering body	Department for International Trade
answering dept id	202
answering dept short name	International Trade
answering dept sort name	International Trade
hansard heading	Trade Promotion
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what funding her Department has allocated to (a) the Tradeshow Access Programme, (b) the Music Export Growth Scheme, (c) the Internationalisation fund and (d) the E-exporting programme in each of the last five years; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Harrow West
tabling member printed	Gareth Thomas
uin	187129
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/04/2021 answer text <p>It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Dissolution.</p> answering member constituency Beverley and Holderness answering member printed Graham Stuart question first answered 29/04/2021 12:36:24 answering member 1482 label Biography information for Graham Stuart
tabling member	177 label Biography information for Gareth Thomas

1306977

registered interest
date	12/04/2021
answering body	Department for International Trade
answering dept id	202
answering dept short name	International Trade
answering dept sort name	International Trade
hansard heading	Trade Promotion
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what the cost to the public purse has been of each Trade Envoy since their appointment, to date.
tabling member constituency	Hendon
tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
uin	178681
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/04/2021 answer text <p>Trade Envoys are unpaid. Total expenditure for the trade envoy programme since its launch in November 2012 has been £987,153.</p> answering member constituency Beverley and Holderness answering member printed Graham Stuart question first answered 20/04/2021 16:54:04 answering member 1482 label Biography information for Graham Stuart
tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

1306978

registered interest
date	12/04/2021
answering body	Department for International Trade
answering dept id	202
answering dept short name	International Trade
answering dept sort name	International Trade
hansard heading	Trade Promotion
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what estimate she has made of the accumulated investment results achieved by each Trade Envoy.
tabling member constituency	Hendon
tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
uin	178683
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/04/2021 answer text <p>The Prime Minister’s Trade Envoy Programme supports British businesses overseas and attracts investment into the UK. The programme works in collaboration with other trade promotion activities and it focuses on emerging and high growth markets where additional senior interactions can be valuable, or larger economies where multiple interactions at different levels are effective.</p><p>There is no verifiable way to quantify the investment results achieved by each Trade Envoy given they work in collaboration with our other activities to promote investment into the UK. The Department for International Trade’s most recent published foreign direct investment results can be found in the annual report:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/department-for-international-trade-annual-report-and-accounts-2019-to-2020" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/department-for-international-trade-annual-report-and-accounts-2019-to-2020</a></p> answering member constituency Beverley and Holderness answering member printed Graham Stuart question first answered 20/04/2021 16:55:01 answering member 1482 label Biography information for Graham Stuart
tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

1252670

registered interest
date	17/11/2020
answering body	Department for International Trade
answering dept id	202
answering dept short name	International Trade
answering dept sort name	International Trade
hansard heading	Trade Promotion
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, if he will publish a list of (a) members of the Board of Trade and (b) trade envoys.
tabling member constituency	North Dorset
tabling member printed	Simon Hoare
uin	116577
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/11/2020 answer text <p>The Board is chaired by my Rt Hon. Friend the Secretary of State for International Trade and President of the Board. She is its only standing member. The list of advisers to the Board of Trade is available on GOV.UK.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>Regarding Trade Envoys, I refer my Honourable Friend to the answer given to Sir Christopher Chope by my Rt Hon. Friend the Member for Chelsea and Fulham (Greg Hands) on 9<sup>th</sup> November 2020, UIN: 111412.</p> answering member constituency Beverley and Holderness answering member printed Graham Stuart question first answered 23/11/2020 10:12:06 answering member 1482 label Biography information for Graham Stuart
tabling member	4494 label Biography information for Simon Hoare

1249736

registered interest
date	09/11/2020
answering body	Department for International Trade
answering dept id	202
answering dept short name	International Trade
answering dept sort name	International Trade
hansard heading	Trade Promotion
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, if she will list every trade mission organised by her Department in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Harrow West
tabling member printed	Gareth Thomas
uin	112987
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/11/2020 answer text <p>The Department for International Trade has run 660 Trade Missions in the last 5 years. A count of missions per year is included, and a full list of these missions can be found in the attached Annex.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Trade Missions run</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>141</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017</p></td><td><p>192</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018</p></td><td><p>182</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2019</p></td><td><p>112</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2020 (As of 11<sup>th</sup> November)</p></td><td><p>33</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Beverley and Holderness answering member printed Graham Stuart question first answered 17/11/2020 14:42:09 answering member 1482 label Biography information for Graham Stuart
tabling member	177 label Biography information for Gareth Thomas

1198000

registered interest
date	01/06/2020
answering body	Department for International Trade
answering dept id	202
answering dept short name	International Trade
answering dept sort name	International Trade
hansard heading	Trade Promotion
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what steps she is taking to promote Yorkshire and Lincolnshire based businesses and produce in international markets.
tabling member constituency	Brigg and Goole
tabling member printed	Andrew Percy
uin	51846
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/06/2020 answer text <p>Businesses across Yorkshire and Lincolnshire have access to Department for International Trade (DIT) support through International Trade Advisers, HM Trade Commissioners and their teams overseas, the GREAT digital export services hub and UK Export Finance. Our trade missions, including those centred on trade shows and exhibitions, have enabled them to showcase their products overseas and connect with live opportunities. In response to COVID-19, we are adapting our support, for example through webinars and ‘virtual’ trade missions. Additional funding this year will enhance our support through more trade advisers, new overseas regional champions, a new export growth programme and other activities delivered with regional partners.</p> answering member constituency Beverley and Holderness answering member printed Graham Stuart question first answered 09/06/2020 10:02:41 answering member 1482 label Biography information for Graham Stuart
tabling member	3939 label Biography information for Andrew Percy