Question to the Department for International Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, if she will list the macroeconomic measures her Department tracks to assess the UK’s trade performance; and if she will make a statement.

The list of top-level metrics the Department for International Trade (DIT) uses to assess performance on its priority outcomes was published in the Department’s 2021-22 Outcome Delivery Plan (ODP) (https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/department-for-international-trade-outcome-delivery-plan/dit-outcome-delivery-plan-2021-to-2022). The list of priority outcomes and metrics was updated as part of the 2021 Spending Review (https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1029277/Supplementary_Document_on_Outcomes_Metrics.pdf) and will be restated in our 2022-23 ODP. DIT publishes an assessment of performance annually as part our Annual Report and Accounts, including on macroeconomic indicators (https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/department-for-international-trade-annual-report-and-accounts).