Question to the Department for International Trade:

To ask Her Majesty's Government (1) how many, and (2) what proportion, of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises they have provided support with exports to, in each of the last three months.

The Department is not able to provide reliably the management information data requested across all of the services provided. However, published research from the Export Client Quality Survey reported over 19,000 unique businesses supported by the services covered by the survey between April 2018 and March 2019.

More recently, on 1 October, DIT launched the Export Support Service where UK businesses can get answers to practical questions about exporting to Europe by accessing cross government in-formation and support all in one place. 95% of enquiries into the Export Support Service (ESS) have been from Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs). Based on this we estimate that ESS provided support to 1,000 SMEs in October 2021, 1,280 in November 2021 and 970 in December 2021.