Asked by: Jon Trickett (Labour - Hemsworth)
Question to the Department for International Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, how much her Department spent on taxi cabs for (a) ministers and (b) civil servants in each of the last three years.
Answered by Nigel Huddleston - Financial Secretary (HM Treasury)
The Department for International Trade (DIT) spend on taxi cabs in each of the last three years for both ministers and civil servants is as follows
2020 | 2021 | January – October 2022 |
£52,110.37 | £28,383.35 | £97,016.49 |
DIT Ministerial travel, gifts, hospitality and meetings are published on www.gov.uk -https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dit-ministerial-gifts-hospitality-travel-and-meetings.
Asked by: Jon Trickett (Labour - Hemsworth)
Question to the Department for International Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, how much her Department spent on first class train travel for (a) ministers and (b) civil servants in (i) 2020, (i) 2021 and (iii) 2022.
Answered by James Duddridge
The Department for International Trade (DIT) spend for first class train travel for ministers and civil servants is as follows:
Ministers
2020- Nil
2021 - £754.20
2022 - £169.20
Civil Servants
2020 - £318.10
2021 - £600.55
2022 - £496.15
Asked by: Jon Trickett (Labour - Hemsworth)
Question to the Department for International Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, how much their Department has spent on air travel for (a) Ministers and (b) officials in (i) 2020, (ii) 2021 and (iii) 2022.
Answered by Penny Mordaunt - Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons
The Department for International Trade spent the following on air travel for the years ending 31 March 2020, 2021 and 2022 for both Ministers and officials.
2019-2020 | 2020-2021 | 2021-2022 |
£2,826,000 | £148,000 | £1,510,000 |
DIT Ministerial travel, gifts, hospitality and meetings are published on www.gov.uk -https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dit-ministerial-gifts-hospitality-travel-and-meetings.
Asked by: Jon Trickett (Labour - Hemsworth)
Question to the Department for International Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, how much their Department and its associated agencies spent on legal disputes in (a) 2020, (b) 2021 and (c) 2022.
Answered by Penny Mordaunt - Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons
The Department for International Trade (DIT) is unable to provide spend on legal disputes, as this is not recorded separately to other forms of legal spend incurred by the Department.
Legal and other professional services costs incurred by the Department are included within note 4 of DIT’s Annual Report and Accounts found here for financial year 2021/22, and here for financial year 2020/21.
Asked by: Jon Trickett (Labour - Hemsworth)
Question to the Department for International Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, how much their Department has spent on advertising in (a) 2020, (b) 2021 and (c) 2022.
Answered by Penny Mordaunt - Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons
The Department for International Trade (DIT) purchases all its advertising through Omnicom Media Group, the sole supplier for such services appointed by the Crown Commercial Service. Our expenditure with Omnicom was as follows:
a) £13.94m in 2019/2020
b) £15.47m in 2020/2021
c) £12.88m in 2021/2022
d) £1.11m to date in 2022/23
Asked by: Jon Trickett (Labour - Hemsworth)
Question to the Department for International Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, how many contracts that are worth (a) between £1 million and £3 million and (b) over £3 million their (i) Department and (ii) Department’s agencies and non-departmental public bodies (A) have agreed since 2010 and (B) are due to agree within the next 12 months; how much their Department has spent on monitoring each contract in each year since 2010; and how many officials have been working on that monitoring in each year since 2010.
Answered by Penny Mordaunt - Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons
The Department for International Trade (DIT) was formed in July 2016 so represents the earliest date for DIT contracts. The number of contracts signed since this date is as below:
| £1m-£3m+ contracts signed | £3m+ contracts signed | £1m-£3m next 12 months | £3m+ next 12 months |
DIT | 35 | 45 | 1 | 3 |
Trade Remedies Authority | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
DIT is a leading department in the implementation of contract management capability in seeking to ensure that contracts are managed by appropriately trained personnel but it does not hold the information pertaining to the amount spent or number of officials monitoring these contracts over this period.
Asked by: Jon Trickett (Labour - Hemsworth)
Question to the Department for International Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what the total value has been of contracts held by their Department with (a) G4S, (b) Serco and (c) Capita in each year since 2020.
Answered by Penny Mordaunt - Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons
Details of Government contracts above £10,000 are published on Contracts Finder: https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Search.
The Department for International Trade (DIT) has awarded contracts to Capita worth approximately £2.7 million in 2020; and approximately £61,000 in 2021.
DIT has not awarded any contracts to Serco or G4S since 2020.
Asked by: Jon Trickett (Labour - Hemsworth)
Question to the Department for International Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, how much her Department has spent on consultancy fees in (a) 2020, (b) 2021 and (c) 2022; and what the name is of each consultancy contracted.
Answered by Penny Mordaunt - Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons
As per the Department for International Trade (DIT) Annual Report and Accounts 2020/21 (https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1002839/DIT-annual-report-2020-to-2021.pdf ) consultancy spend in 2020/21 was £5,782k and in 2019/20 was £897k. This relates to the provision of objective advice to DIT relating to strategy, structure, management or operations in pursuit of its purposes and objective. This has been subject to audit.
The 2021/22 consultancy spend will be published in the 2021/22 Annual Report and Accounts in the coming weeks.
Asked by: Jon Trickett (Labour - Hemsworth)
Question to the Department for International Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, how much her Department spent on hospitality in (a) 2020, (b) 2021 and (c) 2022.
Answered by Penny Mordaunt - Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons
The Department does not separately record expenditure on hospitality.
Asked by: Jon Trickett (Labour - Hemsworth)
Question to the Department for International Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what the wage ratio was between the highest paid member of staff in her Department and the lowest in (a) 2020, (b) 2021 and (c) 2022.
Answered by Penny Mordaunt - Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons
Below are the ratios between the highest and lowest paid earner at the Department for International Trade for 2019/20, 2020/21 and 2021/22:
Period | Rounded Ratio |
2019/20 | 14:1 |
2020/21 | 16:1 |
2021/22 | Figures will be published in the July 2022 ARA. |
Below are the ratios between the highest and lowest paid earner at UK Export Finance for 2019/20, 2020/21 and 2021/22:
Period | Rounded Ratio |
2019/20 | 12:1 |
2020/21 | 12:1 |
2021/22 | 13:1 |