Trade Promotion

(asked on 29th January 2025) - View Source

Question to the Department for Business and Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what has been the cost of the UK Trade Envoy programme since its inception; and what was the cost of the Prime Minister’s Trade Envoy programme in each of the last 5 years in which it operated.


Answered by
Gareth Thomas Portrait
Gareth Thomas
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade)
This question was answered on 5th February 2025

As the United Kingdom’s Trade Envoys have just been appointed minimal costs have occurred. Costs of the Prime Minister Trade Envoy programme for the past five years is in the table below.

2020/2021

2021/2022

2022/2023

2023/2024

2024/2025

£12,106

£106,659

£203,642

£228,583

£27,809

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