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794443

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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	To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, pursuant to his Oral Answer on 23 November 2017, what criteria he used to locate staff from the Export Hub on Small Business Saturday.
tabling member constituency	Sefton Central
tabling member printed	Bill Esterson
uin	115416
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/11/2017 answer text <p>The Export Hub is invited to locations across the UK, and has so far visited 23<ins class="ministerial">1</ins><del class="ministerial">5</del> sites. Any Member of Parliament is able to request for the Export Hub to visit their constituency.</p><p>The logistics for managing the Export Hub is contracted through an external company.</p><p>Many cross-party MPs have spoken highly of the work of the Export Hub at the Department for International Trade’s (DIT) Monthly MPs Briefings which the DIT Ministerial team hosts.</p> answering member constituency Wyre Forest answering member printed Mark Garnier question first answered 28/11/2017 17:55:44 question first ministerially corrected 30/11/2017 11:52:32 answering member 4074 label Biography information for Mark Garnier previous answer version 25634 answering member constituency Wyre Forest answering member printed Mark Garnier answering member 4074 label Biography information for Mark Garnier
tabling member	4061 label Biography information for Bill Esterson

794446

registered interest
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	Trade Agreements
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade pursuant to his Oral Answer of 23 November 2017, what the timetable is for the agreement of each of the trade agreements to be rolled over from the EU after the UK leaves the EU; and how many staff in his Department have been allocated to each agreement.
tabling member constituency	Sefton Central
tabling member printed	Bill Esterson
uin	115419
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/11/2017 answer text <p>The Department for International Trade is engaging with all countries with which the European Union currently has free trade agreements with a view to replicating, as far as possible, the effects of existing agreements as the United Kingdom leaves the European Union, including in any implementation period that might be agreed between the UK and the EU.</p><p>This work involves staff across the Department and in other government departments.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands question first answered 28/11/2017 17:35:23 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
tabling member	4061 label Biography information for Bill Esterson

794452

registered interest
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	To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, pursuant to the Oral Answer on 23 November 2017, how much funding from UK Export Finance has been spent on (a) supporting UK businesses and (b) advisers to those businesses.
tabling member constituency	Sefton Central
tabling member printed	Bill Esterson
uin	115425
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/11/2017 answer text <p>UK Export Finance (UKEF) operates at no net cost to the taxpayer, and has provided £14 billion of support for UK exports in the last five years. Over that period, administrative costs were £137 million, of which around £4m related to its network of 24 Export Finance Managers, who act as local points of contact for businesses across the UK. UKEF generated £532 million in premium for the same period.</p> answering member constituency Wyre Forest answering member printed Mark Garnier question first answered 28/11/2017 12:43:35 answering member 4074 label Biography information for Mark Garnier
tabling member	4061 label Biography information for Bill Esterson

794498

registered interest
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	Trade Agreements: Arbitration
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, pursuant to the Answer of 22 November 2017 to Question 113324, how many departmental staff are involved in the process of establishing a trade remedies framework.
tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
uin	115471
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/12/2017 answer text <p>The Department for International Trade has 21 departmental staff who work primarily on the process of establishing a trade remedies framework.</p> answering member constituency Wyre Forest answering member printed Mark Garnier question first answered 01/12/2017 14:13:42 answering member 4074 label Biography information for Mark Garnier
tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

794500

registered interest
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	Trade Agreements: Arbitration
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, pursuant to the Answer of 22 November 2017 to Question 113324, how many (a) seconded and (b) newly-hired staff were offered employment in his Department to assist in establishing a trade remedies framework during the last twelve months.
tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
uin	115473
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/12/2017 answer text <p>During the last twelve months, the Department for International Trade has hired 19 new staff and seconded one member of staff on loan from another Government department, to work on establishing a trade remedies framework which includes the Trade Remedies Authority. Seven of those were hired from outside the Civil Service. None have been seconded from outside the Civil Service.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Wyre Forest answering member printed Mark Garnier grouped question UIN 115520 question first answered 01/12/2017 14:06:21 answering member 4074 label Biography information for Mark Garnier
tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

794509

registered interest
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	World Trade Organization
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, pursuant to the Answer of 21 November 2017 to Question 113264, if will he establish a contingency plan for the eventuality that the WTO will not allow the UK an Annex on Article II (Most-Favoured-Nation Treatment) for exemptions under GATS.
tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
uin	115482
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/12/2017 answer text <p>The UK has been a Member of the World Trade Organization (WTO) since its founding in 1995. Thereby, the UK already has established exemptions to the Most-Favoured-Nation Treatment obligation under the terms of the GATS Annex on Article II Exemptions. As the UK leaves the EU, we intend to set out in a separate list the exemptions that already apply to the UK, under the terms of the Annex on Article II Exemptions.</p> answering member constituency Wyre Forest answering member printed Mark Garnier question first answered 01/12/2017 13:04:14 answering member 4074 label Biography information for Mark Garnier
tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

794513

registered interest
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	Trade Agreements
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, pursuant to the Answer of 21 November 2017 to Question 113267, if his Department will include Commonwealth representation at such Trade and Investment Working Groups in future.
tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
uin	115486
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/12/2017 answer text <p>I refer the Hon Member for Denton and Reddish to the answer given to him by my Rt Hon Friend the Minister of State for Trade Policy on 21 November, UIN: 113267. This is a bilateral working group and as such involves only the US and the UK.</p> answering member constituency Wyre Forest answering member printed Mark Garnier question first answered 01/12/2017 13:15:39 answering member 4074 label Biography information for Mark Garnier
tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

794516

registered interest
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	Trade Agreements: Arbitration
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, pursuant to the Answer 21 November 2017 to Question 110584, on trade agreements: arbitration, what his Department's definition is of invested resources.
tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
uin	115489
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/12/2017 answer text <p>The Department for International Trade has dedicated the required number of staff, and the budget, to ensure the legislation, policy and operational plans for the new trade remedies framework are designed and implemented effectively.</p> answering member constituency Wyre Forest answering member printed Mark Garnier question first answered 01/12/2017 13:39:27 answering member 4074 label Biography information for Mark Garnier
tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

794547

registered interest
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	Trade Agreements: Arbitration
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, pursuant to the Answer of 17 November 2017 to Question 111497, how many (a) seconded and (b) external staff have been hired by his Department to work as part of the trade remedies investigating authority in the last twelve months.
tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
uin	115520
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/12/2017 answer text <p>During the last twelve months, the Department for International Trade has hired 19 new staff and seconded one member of staff on loan from another Government department, to work on establishing a trade remedies framework which includes the Trade Remedies Authority. Seven of those were hired from outside the Civil Service. None have been seconded from outside the Civil Service.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Wyre Forest answering member printed Mark Garnier grouped question UIN 115473 question first answered 01/12/2017 14:06:21 answering member 4074 label Biography information for Mark Garnier
tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

794565

registered interest
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	Department for International Trade: Internet
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, whether she plans to upgrade the Department’s website to attract more foreign investment.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff North
tabling member printed	Anna McMorrin
uin	115538
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/11/2017 answer text <p><a href="https://www.great.gov.uk/" target="_blank">Great.gov.uk</a> was launched in November 2017. The platform’s purpose is to help UK businesses secure their place on the global stage and present and promote the UK as a natural choice for overseas investment. DIT continuously monitors the site for opportunities to upgrade.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, <a href="https://invest.great.gov.uk/" target="_blank">invest.great.gov.uk</a> was launched in January 2017 and for China from February 2017.</p><p> </p><p>invest.great.gov.uk targets investors in eight languages: from November 2016 in German, Chinese and English; from January 2017 in Spanish, Portuguese, and Japanese; from February 2017 Arabic; and, French followed in February 2017.</p><p> </p><p>Sector content is also updated regularly which now includes: Automotive, Creative, Health and Life Sciences, Energy, Financial Services, and Technology, with later additions in Retail, Food and Drink, Aerospace, and Advanced Manufacturing.</p><p>All content and features will be developed according to the processes outlined in the <a href="https://www.gov.uk/service-manual/service-standard" target="_blank">Government’s Digital Service Standard</a>. We continuously research the needs of investors, iterate content and collect feedback to improve the service, as set out in the standard. As such, updates to ensure the site remains relevant are ongoing.</p> answering member constituency Wyre Forest answering member printed Mark Garnier question first answered 28/11/2017 17:57:31 answering member 4074 label Biography information for Mark Garnier
tabling member	4632 label Biography information for Anna McMorrin