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date	17/01/2024
answering body	Department for Business and Trade
answering dept id	214
answering dept short name	Business and Trade
answering dept sort name	Business and Trade
hansard heading	Department for Business and Trade: Staff
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, with reference to the oral contribution of the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Business and Trade during the debate on UK Export Performance of 18 September 2023, Official Report, column 1200, how many people work in the dedicated free trade agreement utilisation team as of 17 January 2024; and how many people he plans to work in that team on average over the next two financial years.
tabling member constituency	Harrow West
tabling member printed	Gareth Thomas
uin	9992
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/01/2024 answer text <p>The Free Trade Agreement Utilisation team has around 20 full time employees who work closely with business-facing teams across the Nations and regions of the UK, teams based overseas, and across all of our Department’s export support ecosystem to raise awareness of our new FTAs and ensure business can seize the opportunities in those fast growing markets.</p><p> </p><p>Future years' resourcing will be decided as part of business planning for each financial year.</p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands question first answered 22/01/2024 17:12:22 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
tabling member	177 label Biography information for Gareth Thomas

1682016

registered interest
date	15/01/2024
answering body	Department for Business and Trade
answering dept id	214
answering dept short name	Business and Trade
answering dept sort name	Business and Trade
hansard heading	British Shipbuilders: Pension Funds
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how many people who paid into the British Shipbuilders pension fund were not receiving pension payments on 15 January 2024.
tabling member constituency	Harrow West
tabling member printed	Gareth Thomas
uin	9373
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/01/2024 answer text <p>British Shipbuilder pensions were transferred to Legal &amp; General on 1 December 1994. His Majesty’s Government does not hold any data on the number of former employees who are in receipt of pensions.</p> answering member constituency Wealden answering member printed Ms Nusrat Ghani question first answered 18/01/2024 09:40:32 answering member 4460 label Biography information for Ms Nusrat Ghani
tabling member	177 label Biography information for Gareth Thomas

1678986

registered interest
date	19/12/2023
answering body	Department for Business and Trade
answering dept id	214
answering dept short name	Business and Trade
answering dept sort name	Business and Trade
hansard heading	Tractors: Batteries
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, pursuant to the Answers of 14 and 18 December 2023 to Questions 6067, 6068 and 6383 on Tractors: Batteries, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of maintaining rules of origin import taxes on battery electric truck tractors from the EU on the UK's transition to electric vehicles.
tabling member constituency	Harrow West
tabling member printed	Gareth Thomas
uin	7471
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/01/2024 answer text <p>The rules which apply to battery electric truck tractors have been in force since 1 January 2021 and were not due to change in 2024. Zero emission vehicles will help the UK decarbonise and meet our Net Zero 2050 targets. The Government is committed to supporting the transition to these vehicles.</p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands question first answered 10/01/2024 17:31:12 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
tabling member	177 label Biography information for Gareth Thomas