Question to the Department for International Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what the cost to the public purse was of (a) organising and (b) hosting the second Africa Investment Conference.

The cost of the second Africa Investment Conference amounted to £74,450.50. This covered the cost of the event management company required to produce the conference, and the cost of the virtual platform required to host it. This has been paid for from the Department for International Trade’s Africa budget.

With a distinguished line up of over 25 speakers, an audience of over 3,000 and a confident message from the UK’s Africa Investors Group on investing in Africa, the conference represents exceptional value for money and demonstrates why we will look to continue to employ virtual formats in our event toolkit from hereon in.