Question to the Department for International Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what steps his Department is taking to reduce the amount of manual processing on paper that it carries out and to make such processing digital.

The Department for International Trade aims to ensure that the primary route for export or investment support is digital. The Department continues to develop and extend the reach of digital services through great.gov.uk. Technology used by staff is also being upgraded to enable the use of cloud-based software that promotes simultaneous collaboration and seamless mobile working, and further drive productivity. The Digital team are also developing a new business relationship management system, which will encourage and enable staff to record business interactions digitally.