Overseas Trade
(asked on 21st March 2016) - View Source
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what has been the average time in post of Trade Ministers of Her Majesty’s Government in (1) the last five years, and (2) the five years before that.
This question was answered on 29th March 2016
The average tenure of Ministers for Trade & Investment from 2011 until the departure of my noble Friend Lord Maude in March 2016 is 628 days or approximately 1 year, 8 months.
The average tenure of Ministers for Trade & Investment between 2006 and 2011 was 342 days or approximately 11 months.