Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Elizabeth Truss and Damien Moore

Thursday 23rd January 2020 Commons Chamber

[Elizabeth Truss]

I am pleased to tell my hon. Friend that we have 130 international trade advisers and 186 export champions—businesses that already export and that encourage their peers to export—across the north of England. We have just sent out an exporting toolkit to MPs on both sides of the House so that they can get in touch with those local trade advisers and help their businesses export. We estimate that there are 600 businesses in every constituency with the potential to export that do not currently do so. MPs have a really important role in helping those businesses to get the information and support they need.

[Damien Moore (Southport) (Con)]

7. What steps her Department is taking to promote trade between the UK and North Africa.