Asked by: Gareth Thomas (Labour (Co-op) - Harrow West)
Question to the Department for Business and Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, with reference to the Government transparency data entitled DIT: spending over £25,000 for November 2022, for what purpose that Department twice spent £20,200 on marketing and media at M&C Saatchi (UK) Ltd on 17 November 2022.
Answered by Nigel Huddleston - Financial Secretary (HM Treasury)
The Department for Business and Trade has contracts with M&C Saatchi to provide creative development services to support our export and investment promotion, as part of the GREAT Britain campaign, both in the UK and internationally.
All the payments listed are for such creative development services. Paid marketing campaigns require the purchase of creative development to allow advertising and associated marketing assets to be created.
Asked by: Gareth Thomas (Labour (Co-op) - Harrow West)
Question to the Department for Business and Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, with reference to the Government transparency data entitled DIT: spending over £25,000 for November 2022, for what purpose that Department spent £64,311.75 on marketing and media at M&C Saatchi (UK) Ltd on 15 November 2022.
Answered by Nigel Huddleston - Financial Secretary (HM Treasury)
The Department for Business and Trade has contracts with M&C Saatchi to provide creative development services to support our export and investment promotion, as part of the GREAT Britain campaign, both in the UK and internationally.
All the payments listed are for such creative development services. Paid marketing campaigns require the purchase of creative development to allow advertising and associated marketing assets to be created.
Asked by: Gareth Thomas (Labour (Co-op) - Harrow West)
Question to the Department for Business and Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, with reference to the Government transparency data entitled DIT: spending over £25,000 for November 2022 for what purpose that Department spent £45,643.49 on marketing and media at M&C Saatchi (UK) Ltd on 21 November 2022.
Answered by Nigel Huddleston - Financial Secretary (HM Treasury)
The Department for Business and Trade has contracts with M&C Saatchi to provide creative development services to support our export and investment promotion, as part of the GREAT Britain campaign, both in the UK and internationally.
All the payments listed are for such creative development services. Paid marketing campaigns require the purchase of creative development to allow advertising and associated marketing assets to be created.
Asked by: Gareth Thomas (Labour (Co-op) - Harrow West)
Question to the Department for Business and Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, with reference to Government transparency data entitled DIT: spending over £25,000 for November 2022, for what purpose her Department spent £25,361.1 on marketing and media at M&C Saatchi (UK) Ltd on 29 November 2022.
Answered by Nigel Huddleston - Financial Secretary (HM Treasury)
The Department for Business and Trade has contracts with M&C Saatchi to provide creative development services to support our export and investment promotion, as part of the GREAT Britain campaign, both in the UK and internationally.
All the payments listed are for such creative development services. Paid marketing campaigns require the purchase of creative development to allow advertising and associated marketing assets to be created.
Asked by: Gareth Thomas (Labour (Co-op) - Harrow West)
Question to the Department for Business and Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, with reference to Government transparency data entitled DIT: spending over £25,000 for November 2022, for what purpose her Department spent £69,104.2 on marketing and media at M&C Saatchi (UK) Ltd on 24 November 2022.
Answered by Nigel Huddleston - Financial Secretary (HM Treasury)
The Department for Business and Trade has contracts with M&C Saatchi to provide creative development services to support our export and investment promotion, as part of the GREAT Britain campaign, both in the UK and internationally.
All the payments listed are for such creative development services. Paid marketing campaigns require the purchase of creative development to allow advertising and associated marketing assets to be created.
Asked by: Alberto Costa (Conservative - South Leicestershire)
Question to the Department for Business and Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether her Department is taking steps to help support and increase the export of locally produced beer and gin to overseas markets.
Answered by Nigel Huddleston - Financial Secretary (HM Treasury)
The Department for Business & Trade provides bespoke export advice and support to our distilleries and breweries across the UK through our network of international trade advisers and dedicated sector resource in Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales.
The Department has a dedicated workplan of export promotion activities including a strong UK presence at tradeshows such as Prowein in Germany in March, educational webinars and inward buyer visits.
We work in close partnership with trade associations such as the Wine and Spirits Trade Association and the British Beer and Pub Association to help drinks exporters to capitalise on the enormous global demand for British food and drink whilst we work to open new markets for their products.
Asked by: Matt Western (Labour - Warwick and Leamington)
Question to the Department for Business and Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what grants and programmes exist to help video games studios export their games.
Answered by Nigel Huddleston - Financial Secretary (HM Treasury)
The Department for Business and Trade, working with industry partners, delivers a trade promotion programme for UK video games firms at major international video games trade shows to support their exporting journey. An example of this support is the video games trade mission this department is taking to the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco in March 2023. We also deliver a dedicated campaign programme ‘Made in the UK, Sold to the World’ which encourages new exporters, including those from the video games sector, to pursue export opportunities. Video games firms can also access the Creative Industries Faculty of the Export Academy, which builds their export capability through a programme of online learning.
Asked by: Seema Malhotra (Labour (Co-op) - Feltham and Heston)
Question to the Department for Business and Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, pursuant to the Answer of 20 January 2023 to Question 121033 on Trade Promotion, when she will publish the evidence on the Export Support Team’s services’ performance and satisfaction that the Department is now in the process of collecting.
Answered by Nigel Huddleston - Financial Secretary (HM Treasury)
The Export Client Survey launched in 2018 and the findings for the 2018-2019 financial year have been published: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/trade-export-client-survey-ecs.
We intend to publish the subsequent Export Client Survey findings as per the Department’s monitoring and evaluation strategy and in line with the Government Social Research protocol.
Asked by: Seema Malhotra (Labour (Co-op) - Feltham and Heston)
Question to the Department for Business and Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, pursuant to the Answer of 2 February 2023 to Question 134004 on Trade Promotion, when she will publish the findings of the Export Client Survey for financial years (a) 2019-20, (b) 2020-21, (c) 2021-22 and (d) 2022-23.
Answered by Nigel Huddleston - Financial Secretary (HM Treasury)
The Export Client Survey launched in 2018 and the findings for the 2018-2019 financial year have been published: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/trade-export-client-survey-ecs.
We intend to publish the subsequent Export Client Survey findings as per the Department’s monitoring and evaluation strategy and in line with the Government Social Research protocol.
Asked by: Jim Shannon (Democratic Unionist Party - Strangford)
Question to the Department for International Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what recent steps her Department has taken to promote the export of British beef.
Answered by Andrew Bowie - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)
The Department for International Trade (DIT) works closely with the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs to increase opportunities for UK beef, and in recent years unlocked barriers to enable exports to markets such as Japan, the Philippines, and the USA.
DIT works with industry partners to deliver trade promotion activity to promote British beef globally, through trade shows, meet the buyer missions and other marketing activities.
DIT has recently established a new trade and investment hub in Northern Ireland, that works closely with the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA), the Northern Ireland Meat Exporters Association, Ulster Farmers Union and Livestock and Meat Commission for Northern Ireland, in support of export goals.