Question to the Department for International Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, how much was spent by her Department on incentive payments for departmental suppliers of export support services in (a) 2016-17, (b) 2017-18, (c) 2018-19, (d) 2019-20 and (e) 2020-21.
For each of the financial years between 2016/17 and 2020/21 the Department for International Trade made the following contracted incentive payments across 11 export support services contracts.
| 16-17 Total Incentive Paid | 17-18 Total Incentive Paid | 18-19 Total Incentive Paid | 19-20 Total Incentive Paid | 20-21 Total Incentive Paid |
£ Total | 1,360,330 | 3,819,996 | 4,220,000 | 4,223,743 | 1,650,000 |