Overseas Companies: India

(asked on 26th February 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department for International Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, how much funding she has allocated to supporting UK businesses in India; and if she will make a statement.


Answered by
Graham Stuart Portrait
Graham Stuart
Minister of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)
This question was answered on 2nd March 2020

The department’s budget for the South Asia Network, for the financial year 2019/20, is £4.4 m for staff and non-pay expenditure. There is no specific budget for India.

Wider DIT budgets, which are not set at a regional level, also support the delivery of trade.

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