Trade Promotion
(asked on 15th November 2022) - View Source
Question to the Department for International Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, how much the Government has spent on travel by the Prime Minister's Trade Envoys in each of the last 10 years.
Answered by
Andrew Bowie
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)
The table below provides the number of international visits each year made by the Prime Minister’s Trade Envoys over each the last 10 years and travel costs (including UK travel). Along with hotel costs each year over the last 5 years
Year | Number of visits | Travel costs | Hotel costs (from 2018-19 only) |
2012/13 | 0 | £0.00 | NA |
2013/14 | 16 | £55,741 | NA |
2014/15 | 46 | £116,541 | NA |
2015/16 | 29 | £68,717 | NA |
2016/17 | 69 | £202,771 | N/A |
2017/18 | 58 | £154,067 | £9816.00 |
2018/19 | 56 | £149,548 | £5919.00 |
2019/20 | 38 | £104,848 | £6820.00 |
2020/21 | 2 | £739.00 | £90.00 |
2021/22 | 18 | £59,422 | £4144.00 |
Totals: | 332 | £912,394 | £26,789 |