Question to the Department for Business and Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what recent steps her Department is taking to support businesses to export.

The Government’s Export Strategy supports UK business through a 12-Point Plan that targets barriers to trade and makes Government support easier to access through our trans-formed Export Support Service. We continue to drive awareness of the UK’s Free Trade Agreements to ensure businesses reap the full benefits from these.

The creation of the Department for Business and Trade presents a huge opportunity to maximise our business support including the new ‘Help to Grow’ initiative that helps SMEs scale up then export globally as well as access to the right finance via UK Export Finance and the British Business Bank.