Question to the Department for International Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what estimate she has made of the accumulated investment results achieved by each Trade Envoy.

The Prime Minister’s Trade Envoy Programme supports British businesses overseas and attracts investment into the UK. The programme works in collaboration with other trade promotion activities and it focuses on emerging and high growth markets where additional senior interactions can be valuable, or larger economies where multiple interactions at different levels are effective.

There is no verifiable way to quantify the investment results achieved by each Trade Envoy given they work in collaboration with our other activities to promote investment into the UK. The Department for International Trade’s most recent published foreign direct investment results can be found in the annual report:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/department-for-international-trade-annual-report-and-accounts-2019-to-2020