Asked by: Stewart Malcolm McDonald (Scottish National Party - Glasgow South)
Question to the Department for International Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, how much her Department spent on trade finance support programmes to Belarus in (a) 2020 and (b) 2021.
Answered by Graham Stuart
UK Export Finance (UKEF) does not invest equity or provide funding into projects. The support provided by the Department is in the form of financing, insurance or guarantees for loans.
UKEF has provided export insurance policy cover for UK exports to Belarus. As no claims have been made on those policies, UKEF has not incurred any outlay. The beneficiary of this insurance is the UK exporter, and not Belarus.
Asked by: Stewart Malcolm McDonald (Scottish National Party - Glasgow South)
Question to the Department for International Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, how many licences for the export of military material from the UK to Turkey have been suspended since 9 October 2019; what equipment those licences were for; and what the financial value of those licences was.
Answered by Graham Stuart
I refer the Hon. Member for Glasgow South to the answer I gave to the Hon. Member for Glasgow South West on 24 October 2019, UIN: 2890.
Asked by: Stewart Malcolm McDonald (Scottish National Party - Glasgow South)
Question to the Department for International Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, if he will make it his Department's policy to refuse future trade deals between the UK and countries that criminalise consensual same-sex conduct.
Answered by Mark Garnier
The Prime Minister has established the Department for International Trade to promote British trade across the world, and the Department’s ministers will provide further information on its strategy and policies over the coming months.
The UK has a strong history in protecting human rights. While we remain members of the EU, we will continue to support a trade liberalising agenda and the UK will participate constructively in EU decision making on trade issues, including on human rights requirements. The UK has long supported the promotion of our values globally and this will continue as we leave the EU.