Show Search Form

Search Results

registered interest	true false
date	exactly: or between: and
answering body
answering dept id
answering dept short name
answering dept sort name
hansard heading
house id
legislature	pref label
question text
tabling member constituency
tabling member printed
uin
answer	is ministerial correction true false date of answer exactly: or between: and answer text answering member constituency answering member printed question first answered answering member label previous answer version answering member constituency answering member printed answering member label
tabling member	label

Search

1038551

registered interest
date	09/01/2019
answering body	Department for International Trade
answering dept id	202
answering dept short name	International Trade
answering dept sort name	International Trade
hansard heading	Exports: EU Countries
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, if he will set out the proportion of total exports for each region of the UK that went to the EU in each of the last three years for which data is available.
tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
uin	206765
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/01/2019 answer text <p>Estimates of the percentage of goods exports by UK region are published by HM Revenue and Customs in its Regional Trade Statistics release:</p><p><a href="https://www.uktradeinfo.com/statistics/rts/pages/default.aspx" target="_blank">https://www.uktradeinfo.com/statistics/rts/pages/default.aspx</a></p><p>Experimental estimates of the percentage of services exports by GB region are published by the Office for National Statistics, however they do not cover all services (they exclude travel, transport and financial services) and only cover 2011-2015 and Great Britain. <a href="https://emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ons.gov.uk%2Fbusinessindustryandtrade%2Finternationaltrade%2Farticles%2Festimatingthevalueofserviceexportsabroadfromdifferentpartsoftheuk%2F2015&amp;data=02%7C01%7C%7Cfaf6a83f69c54f9f8ed508d677abd37c%7C8fa217ec33aa46fbad96dfe68006bb86%7C0%7C0%7C636827977198685358&amp;sdata=NWcRWlC8RJ5Cl6rh8beo2wum0Ovq3bGe%2FQNEsrEWPW0%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">https://www.ons.gov.uk/businessindustryandtrade/internationaltrade/articles/estimatingthevalueofserviceexportsabroadfromdifferentpartsoftheuk/2015</a></p><p> </p><p>The two datasets above cannot be aggregated together due to differences in methodology and coverage.</p> answering member constituency Meon Valley answering member printed George Hollingbery question first answered 14/01/2019 15:45:29 answering member 4016 label Biography information for Sir George Hollingbery
tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

847067

registered interest
date	22/02/2018
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: Fair Trade Initiative
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what proportion of his Department's spend on day-to-day goods has comprised fair trade products since it was established.
tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
uin	129241
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/03/2018 answer text <p>The Department for International Trade is fully committed to ethical procurement, but does not hold information at the level of detail required to answer the question.</p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands question first answered 07/03/2018 17:44:12 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands previous answer version 44547 answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

847105

registered interest
date	22/02/2018
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: Contracts
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, to which organisations his Department has outsourced functions since 2011.
tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
uin	129279
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2018 answer text <p>The Department for International Trade has not outsourced any core internal functions since it was formally established in 2016 but we did inherit some outsourced contracts from UK Trade and Investment and the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills.</p><p>These included some contracts related to Trade promotion work in the UK, and overseas, and corporate services such as HR, IT and Finance functions.</p><p>A portion of these contracts have been re-negotiated or re-let since the Department was formed.</p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands question first answered 02/03/2018 14:54:11 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

847125

registered interest
date	22/02/2018
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: Trade Unions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what percentage of workers employed directly by his Department belonged to a trade union in each year since his Department's formation.
tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
uin	129299
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/03/2018 answer text <p>The Department for International Trade (DIT) was established in July 2016. The percentage of workers who are trade union members is not held by DIT.</p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands question first answered 06/03/2018 13:28:21 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

847151

registered interest
date	22/02/2018
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: Zero Hours Contracts
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, how many (a) full-time staff, (b) part-time staff, (c) temporary staff and (d) any other staff were directly employed on zero-hours contracts by his Department in each of the last eight years.
tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
uin	129325
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/03/2018 answer text <p>The Department for International Trade and UK Export Finance do not currently have any full-time, part-time or temporary staff on zero hours contracts, nor have they directly employed any staff on such contracts since the Department was established.</p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands question first answered 01/03/2018 17:31:22 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

847191

registered interest
date	22/02/2018
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: Flexible Working
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, how many and what percentage of employees in his Department worked (a) in departmental accommodation, (b) from home and (c) at any other location in the most recent 12-month period for which data is available.
tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
uin	129365
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2018 answer text <p>The table below sets out the number of employees of the Department for International Trade (DIT), including UK Export Finance, and on payroll, as at 31 January 2018. The total also includes those people working for DIT, based overseas, and paid via the FCO payroll.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Number of employees</p></td><td><p>%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>(a)</p></td><td><p>Departmental accommodation</p></td><td><p>1724</p></td><td><p>54%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>(b)</p></td><td><p>Home workers (UKEF)</p></td><td><p>23</p></td><td><p>1%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>(c)</p></td><td><p>Other location</p></td><td><p>1434</p></td><td><p>45%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Departmental accommodation is defined as locations occupied and assigned to DIT within the UK. Other location is defined as accommodation that DIT uses principally for overseas staff, which include Embassies and other consular accommodation.</p><p>The department operates a range of flexible working arrangements available to employees including home working. Those who have a formal home worker contract are shown above.</p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands question first answered 02/03/2018 14:47:47 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

830101

registered interest
date	24/01/2018
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: Directors
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, who the lead non-executive director and other non-executive director board members are in his Department.
tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
uin	124792
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2018 answer text <p>The names of the Department for International Trade’s four Non-Executive Board Members, including Lead Non-Executive Director, are publically available on the gov.uk website. This information can be found here:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/department-for-international-trade" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/department-for-international-trade</a></p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands question first answered 29/01/2018 14:48:37 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

809721

registered interest
date	19/12/2017
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: Written Questions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, how many and what proportion of his Department's Answers to Written Parliamentary Questions in the 2017-18 Session to date have referred to the information requested not being (a) collected or (b) collated centrally.
tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
uin	120341
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/12/2017 answer text <p>The Department for International Trade has referred to information requested not being held centrally in five answers this session. This represents less than one per cent of the answers given to date.</p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands question first answered 22/12/2017 14:55:18 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

806554

registered interest
date	14/12/2017
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: Written Questions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, (a) how many and (b) what proportion of his Department's Answers to Written Parliamentary Questions have advised that the requested information was not available on the grounds of disproportionate cost associated with data collection and collation in the current session.
tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
uin	119630
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/12/2017 answer text <p>Since 9 November 2016, the date on which this department became a legal employer, the Department for International Trade (DIT) was unable to provide the information requested in parliamentary questions (PQs) tabled to DIT on the grounds of disproportionate cost on 10 occasions.</p><p>This represents 1% of the total number of PQs tabled to and answered by DIT since 9 November 2016.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands question first answered 19/12/2017 14:07:46 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

802249

registered interest
date	06/12/2017
answering body	Department for International Trade
answering dept id	202
answering dept short name	International Trade
answering dept sort name	International Trade
hansard heading	UK Trade with EU
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what the value of (a) imports from and (b) exports to the EU was for each region and constituent part of the UK in each of the last 30 years.
tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
uin	117936
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/12/2017 answer text <p>Data on the value of UK trade (exports and imports) in goods and services with the EU since 1999 are available from the ONS at:</p><p><a href="https://www.ons.gov.uk/file?uri=/economy/nationalaccounts/balanceofpayments/datasets/9geographicalbreakdownofthecurrentaccountthepinkbook2016/thepinkbook2017/pinkbook2017chapter9.xls" target="_blank">https://www.ons.gov.uk/file?uri=/economy/nationalaccounts/balanceofpayments/datasets/9geographicalbreakdownofthecurrentaccountthepinkbook2016/thepinkbook2017/pinkbook2017chapter9.xls</a></p><p> </p><p>Data on the value of UK trade in goods by UK region (at the NUTS1 level) with the EU since 1996 are available from HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC)’s Build Your Own Tables application at:</p><p><a href="https://www.uktradeinfo.com/Statistics/BuildYourOwnTables/Pages/Home.aspx" target="_blank">https://www.uktradeinfo.com/Statistics/BuildYourOwnTables/Pages/Home.aspx</a> (RTS data)</p><p> </p><p>Data on the value of exports of services (excluding travel, transport and financial services) by GB region (at the NUTS1 level) to the EU in 2015 are available from the ONS at:</p><p><a href="https://www.ons.gov.uk/businessindustryandtrade/internationaltrade/articles/estimatingthevalueofserviceexportsabroadfromdifferentpartsoftheuk/2015" target="_blank">https://www.ons.gov.uk/businessindustryandtrade/internationaltrade/articles/estimatingthevalueofserviceexportsabroadfromdifferentpartsoftheuk/2015</a>. Data for earlier years are not available.</p> answering member constituency Wyre Forest answering member printed Mark Garnier question first answered 13/12/2017 16:36:54 answering member 4074 label Biography information for Mark Garnier
tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane