Trade Promotion

(asked on 25th July 2023) - View Source

Question to the Department for Business and Trade:

To ask His Majesty's Government who are the Trade Envoys; to which country each Trade Envoy has been assigned; and what is the party affiliation of each Trade Envoy and the length of time in post.


This question was answered on 7th August 2023

There are currently 36 Prime Minister’s Trade Envoys and information as below.

Country

Trade Envoy

Date of PM Appointment

LATIN AMERICA & THE CARIBBEAN

Colombia, Chile, Peru, Argentina

Mark Menzies MP (Con)

September 2016 & September 2017 for Argentina

Panama, Dominican Republic, Costa Rica

Baroness Hooper of Liverpool (Con)

October 2020

Brazil

Marco Longhi MP (Con)

August 2021

AFRICA

Algeria

Lord Risby of Haverhill (Con)

November 2012

Uganda & Rwanda (watching brief for DRC)

Lord Popat (Con)

January 2016

Egypt and Cameroon

Sir Jeffrey Donaldson MP (DUP)

January 2016 & August 2021 for Cameroon

Nigeria

Helen Grant MP (Con)

October 2020

Kenya

Theo Clarke MP (Con)

Reappointed May 2023

South Africa & Mauritius

Andrew Selous MP(Con)

September 2017 & January 2023 for Mauritius

Tanzania

Lord Walney (Non-Affiliated)

August 2021

Ghana

Baroness Hoey (Non-Affiliated)

August 2021

Tunisia & Libya

Yvonne Fovargue MP (Lab)

March 2022

Angola, Zambia & Ethiopia

Laurence Robertson MP (Con)

Reappointed March 2023

MIDDLE EAST

Israel

Lord Austin of Dudley (Non-affiliated)

October 2020

Iran

Lord Lamont of Lerwick (Con)

January 2016

Lebanon

Lord Risby of Haverhill (Con)

August 2019

Iraq

Baroness Nicholson of Winterbourne (Con)

January 2014

Jordan, Kuwait & Palestine Territories

Baroness Morris of Bolton (Con)

November 2012

UAE

Gareth Thompson MP (Con)

March 2023


EECAN

Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan

Baroness Nicholson of Winterbourne (Con)

April 2016 & Kazakhstan July 2017

Mongolia

Daniel Kawczynski MP (Con)

October 2020

Ukraine

Baroness Meyer (Con)

October 2020

Turkey

Lord Hutton (Lab)

May 2022

EUROPE

Switzerland & Liechtenstein

Sir Stephen Timms MP (Lab)

August 2021

Western Balkans (Albania, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Kosovo, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia)

Martin Vickers MP (Con)

October 2020

APAC

Australia

Lord Botham (Crossbench)

August 2021

Taiwan

Lord Faulkner (Lab)

January 2016

Japan

Greg Clark MP (Con)

May 2022

Thailand, Myanmar, Brunei & Vietnam

Mark Garnier MP (Con)

October 2020 & for Vietnam January 2023

Singapore

Lord Sarfraz (Con)

January 2022

Republic of Korea

Sir John Whittingdale (Con)

May 2022

Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines & ASEAN

Richard Graham MP (Con)

Reappointed March 2023

Cambodia & Laos

Heather Wheeler MP (Con)

Reappointed March 2023

New Zealand

David Mundell MP (Con)

Reappointed March 2023

SOUTH ASIA

Bangladesh

Rushanara Ali MP (Lab)

March 2016

Sri Lanka

Lord Mervyn Davies of Abersoch (Crossbench)

October 2020

North America

Canada

Dame Maria Miller MP (Con)

May 2022

USA (specific focus on driving trade promotion with existing MOU states)

Sir Conor Burns MP (Con)

May 2023

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