Small Businesses: Finance

Baroness Symons of Vernham Dean Excerpts

Thursday 26th January 2012 Lords Chamber

[Baroness Symons of Vernham Dean]

My Lords, will the Minister tell the House what is being done to help small businesses to export more? We know that many markets abroad would benefit from putting their small businesses together with ours. What action are the Government taking to concentrate on small businesses getting into these very important export markets?

[Baroness Wilcox]

The noble Lord, Lord Green, heads up our export division. I am absolutely sure that he has this well on his scanner. When he took up his office, he decided not to go abroad first but to go around Great Britain and look at small and medium-sized businesses to see what they needed and what help they could be given. I like to think that one day he will come here and described this himself.