Question to the Department for Business and Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what plans he has to help increase exports from (a) Newcastle-under-Lyme constituency and (b) Staffordshire to European countries.

We as a government will work to remove unnecessary barriers to trade with the EU.

UK businesses can access DBT’s export support services via Great.gov.uk. This comprises a digital self-serve offer and our wider network of support, including Export Champions, the Export Academy, our International Markets network, and UK Export Finance. Alongside this, our international trade advisers use their extensive experience of exporting and knowledge of the needs of SMEs in their sectors and regions to provide one-to-one tailored support to businesses across the UK. The Department are exploring options to improve our export support offer to UK businesses.