Asked by: Nick Thomas-Symonds (Labour - Torfaen)
Question to the Department for International Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what the value was of (a) goods and (b) services exported from each English region in the period between 2020 and 2022.
Answered by Andrew Bowie - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)
Trade in goods data by English region is published by HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC), the latest data available is up to September 2022. Trade in services data by English region is published by the Office for National Statistics (ONS), the latest data available is for 2020. The HMRC and ONS data sources cannot be combined due to differences in methodologies.
The HMRC data for goods exports is available here: https://www.uktradeinfo.com/media/o2mddj5d/rts_q3_2022.xlsx
The ONS data for services exports is available here: https://www.ons.gov.uk/businessindustryandtrade/internationaltrade/datasets/subnationaltradeinservices
Asked by: Nick Thomas-Symonds (Labour - Torfaen)
Question to the Department for International Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, how many (a) services exporters and (b) services importers there were in each region of England in (i) 2021 and (ii) 2022; and what percentage of businesses located in each of those regions were (a) services exporters and (b) services importers in those years.
Answered by Andrew Bowie - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)
Data on the number of businesses exporting and importing services for each region of England are published by the Office for National Statistics. The latest data available is for 2020 and can be found at: https://www.ons.gov.uk/businessindustryandtrade/business/businessservices/datasets/annualbusinesssurveyimportersandexportersregionalbreakdown
Data for the percentage of businesses in each region is not available.
Asked by: Nick Thomas-Symonds (Labour - Torfaen)
Question to the Department for International Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, how many (a) goods exporters and (b) goods importers there were in each region of England in (i) 2021 and (ii) 2022; and what percentage of businesses located in each of those regions were (a) goods exporters and (b) goods importers in those years.
Answered by Andrew Bowie - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)
Data on the number of businesses exporting and importing goods for each region of England are published by HMRC. The latest data available is up to Q3 2022 and can be found at: https://www.uktradeinfo.com/media/o2mddj5d/rts_q3_2022.xlsx
Data for the percentage of businesses in each region is not available.
Asked by: Nick Thomas-Symonds (Labour - Torfaen)
Question to the Department for International Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, with reference to the announcement on 11 November 2021 by her Department of the Clean Growth programme, how many businesses in England received support from that programme in each month in (a) 2021 and (b) 2022, broken down by English region.
Answered by Andrew Bowie - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)
The Clean Growth programme was launched at COP26 as one of the Department for International Trade’s (DIT) priority campaigns, to promote the UK’s innovative green exporters. DIT does not hold overall numbers of businesses supported, but statistics for key programme deliverables are captured. For example, November’s Green Trade and Investment Expo brought together 160 of the most important international investors, exporters and innovators, while our digital COP27 Pavilion saw 7000 visitors. Together these had a social media reach of more than 170k impressions.
Asked by: Nick Thomas-Symonds (Labour - Torfaen)
Question to the Department for International Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, when she expects the Government’s target of exporting £1 trillion in exports via the Made in the UK, Sold to the World plan will be reached.
Answered by Andrew Bowie - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)
Our ambition, set out in the Export Strategy in November 2021, is for the UK to achieve £1 trillion exports per year by 2030. The latest Office for National Statistics figures show that UK exports were £758.5bn in the 12 months ending October 2022.
Extrapolations of the Office for Budget Responsibility forecast suggest £1 trillion exports could be achieved by around 2035 without additional intervention. We recognise the speed by which the UK reaches this milestone will be impacted by macro-economic factors such as global demand and exchange rates. This has proven to be the case over the past year where we have experienced external shocks and a spike in inflation.
Asked by: Nick Thomas-Symonds (Labour - Torfaen)
Question to the Department for International Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what estimate she has made of spending by her Department for the next five years.
Answered by Nigel Huddleston - Financial Secretary (HM Treasury)
At the Spending Review 2021, the Department for International Trade (DIT) secured a Total Departmental Expenditure Limit (TDEL) settlement of £562.2m and £552.8m in financial years 2023/24 and 2024/25 respectively to deliver DIT’s priority outcomes. Funding requirements for the Department, beyond this point, will be confirmed at the next Spending Review.
Asked by: Nick Thomas-Symonds (Labour - Torfaen)
Question to the Department for International Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, when she expects the UK to meet the Government's target for 80 per cent of UK Trade to be carried out under Free Trade Agreements.
Answered by Nigel Huddleston - Financial Secretary (HM Treasury)
The UK Government has secured trade agreements with 71 countries plus the EU. These partners accounted for 63% (£814bn) of UK bilateral trade in 2021. It is important to remember that when the Government adopted this target the United States was in ongoing talks on a free trade agreement (FTA) with the UK but has since taken a different approach to FTA talks under the Biden administration. The US is 16.6% of our total global trade. We continue to make progress, signing three Memoranda of Understanding at state-level to facilitate trade and investment opportunities.
Our Free Trade Agreement programme continues at unprecedented pace and scale. We are negotiating with seven partners concurrently – India, the Comprehensive and Progressive Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP), Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), Canada, Mexico, Israel and Greenland. We are also in preparations to begin negotiations on new trade deals with Switzerland and South Korea.
We have an ambitious programme, but it is the substance of trade deals that is important, not the timing.
Asked by: Nick Thomas-Symonds (Labour - Torfaen)
Question to the Department for International Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, if she will make an estimate of the potential impact of the UK-New Zealand free trade agreement on annual (a) gross value added to, (b) exports made by, (c) tariffs paid by and (d) changes to levels of employment for small and medium sized enterprises in the next (i) three and (ii) ten years.
Answered by Greg Hands - Minister of State (Department for Business and Trade)
Our published impact assessments for the Australia and New Zealand free trade agreements (FTAs) set out the potential long-run impacts of these FTAs on UK GDP, sectors, and employment. They also make an assessment of the potential implications for small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs).
These assessments show the proportion of UK SMEs that are present in sectors most likely to be affected by the FTAs. Estimating the impacts of UK FTAs on gross value added (GVA), tariffs and employment specifically for SMEs is not possible using the currently available trade data and modelling methodology.
Asked by: Nick Thomas-Symonds (Labour - Torfaen)
Question to the Department for International Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what assessment she has made of the impact of the UK-Australia free trade agreement on (a) gross value added to, (b) exports from, (c) tariffs paid by and (d) levels of employment within of small and medium sized enterprises in the UK in the next (i) three years and (ii) 10 years.
Answered by Greg Hands - Minister of State (Department for Business and Trade)
Our published impact assessments for the Australia and New Zealand free trade agreements (FTAs) set out the potential long-run impacts of these FTAs on UK GDP, sectors, and employment. They also make an assessment of the potential implications for small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs).
These assessments show the proportion of UK SMEs that are present in sectors most likely to be affected by the FTAs. Estimating the impacts of UK FTAs on gross value added (GVA), tariffs and employment specifically for SMEs is not possible using the currently available trade data and modelling methodology.