Asked by: Mark Prisk (Conservative - Hertford and Stortford)
Question to the Department for International Trade:
What plans he has to mark the centenary of UK Export Finance.
Answered by Graham Stuart
We will celebrate UK Export Finance’s centenary throughout the year, notably at the UK Trade & Export Finance Forum in June. I am delighted that in its centenary year UK Export Finance was awarded ‘Best Export Credit Agency’ at the 2019 International Trade Finance Awards. As the world’s first export credit agency, UK Export Finance will continue to innovate as it has done for the past 100 years.
Asked by: Mark Prisk (Conservative - Hertford and Stortford)
Question to the Department for International Trade:
What progress is being made on increasing UK exports.
Answered by Liam Fox
The Export Strategy sets out how the Government will encourage, inform, connect and finance UK businesses to enable them to take advantage of the international demand for British goods and services. Last month we launched an enhanced digital service on great.gov.uk, connecting businesses to over 20,000 export opportunities.
Asked by: Mark Prisk (Conservative - Hertford and Stortford)
Question to the Department for International Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, with reference to paragraphs 1.296 and 1.297 of the Spending Review and Autumn Statement 2015, what progress his Department has made by estimated capacity of land sold since March 2016 in identifying and disposing of land to meet the Government's commitment.
Answered by Greg Hands - Minister of State (Department for Business and Trade)
The Spending Review and Autumn Statement 2015 were conducted before the establishment of the Department for International Trade (DIT) and at this time UK Trade and Investment was part of the then Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO). When DIT was set up there was no transfer of land assets from BIS or FCO and hence DIT do not own any land or property assets that could be sold.