Chambers of Commerce: Finance

(asked on 6th March 2024) - View Source

Question to the Department for Business and Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how much funding her Department and its predecessor Department allocated to the (a) Turkish-British Chamber of Commerce, (b) British-Swiss Chamber of Commerce, (c) British Chamber of Commerce in Brazil, (d) UK-India Business Council, (e) Nigerian-British Chamber of Commerce and (f) British Chamber of Business in Southern Africa in each of the last 10 years.


Answered by
Nusrat Ghani Portrait
Nusrat Ghani
Minister of State (Minister for Europe)
This question was answered on 14th March 2024

The Department for Business and Trade and the former Department for International Trade have not provided any funding to the Chambers of Commerce requested except for the UK-India Business Council. The funding provided to it is as follows:

Year

Spend

2013 (October-March inclusive)

£441,344.54

2014

£3,428,243.20

2015

£2,269,682.03

2016

£1,955,098.94

2017

£1,499,191.33

2018

£1,311,455.20

2019

£1,059,669.00

2020

£828,695.00

2021

£1,115,025.00

2022

£270,835.00

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