Question to the Department for International Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, how many meetings the Export Guarantees Advisory Council has had since December 2017; and when she plans to publish the minutes of those meetings.

The Export Guarantees Advisory Council has formally met 6 times since December 2017. Minutes of the meetings held in 2018 have been published on its website (https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/export-guarantees-advisory-council/about/our-governance#minutes). Minutes of meetings held in 2019 will be published in the next calendar year.

UK Export Finance’s (UKEF) Annual Report and Accounts includes a report from the Council which lists the number of meetings it has held and a summary of the issues that the Council considered. These Annual Report and Accounts are presented to Parliament and published on UKEF’s website (https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/uk-export-finance-annual-reports-and-accounts).