Asked by: Andrew Gwynne (Labour - Denton and Reddish)
Question to the Department for International Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what support she is providing to increase UK exports of clean maritime technologies.
Answered by Mike Freer - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Justice)
I refer the Hon. Member for Denton and Reddish to the answer I gave to the Hon. Member for Newport West on 27 Oct 2021, UIN: 59048.
Asked by: Andrew Gwynne (Labour - Denton and Reddish)
Question to the Department for International Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, pursuant to the Answer of 12 October 2018 to Question 177209 on Department for International Trade: Staff, if he will publish the information in relation to specialist staff by discipline.
Answered by George Hollingbery
The Department for International Trade publishes information on staff roles on GOV.UK.
This information is published every six months and will be updated at the end of November with data as at 30th September 2018.
Asked by: Andrew Gwynne (Labour - Denton and Reddish)
Question to the Department for International Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, whether representatives of his Department attended the 2017 BRICS summit in Xiamen.
Answered by Graham Stuart
The BRICS summit is an annual meeting for the five member countries aimed at facilitating global political and economic transformation. These countries are Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. No G7 nations attend this summit.
No representatives of the Department for International Trade attended the 2017 BRICS summit in Xiamen.
Asked by: Andrew Gwynne (Labour - Denton and Reddish)
Question to the Department for International Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, how many staff with expertise in negotiating trade agreements his Department has hired since it was created.
Answered by George Hollingbery
The Department for International Trade was created in July 2016.
Since then, the Department’s Trade Policy Group has grown from around 45 staff to almost 600 staff today, bringing together trade policy and country specialists, as well as economic analysts, lawyers, research and statistical experts.
Asked by: Andrew Gwynne (Labour - Denton and Reddish)
Question to the Department for International Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, pursuant to the Answer of 22 March to Question 132109 on trade remedies, if he will publish the schedule of meetings which took place at each of the 60 visits.
Answered by Greg Hands - Minister of State (Department for Business and Trade)
The Secretary of State for International Trade and his Ministerial team undertake regular visits overseas to promote trade and investment. The programmes typically include bilateral meetings with counterparts to discuss trade cooperation and meetings with business leaders and investors.
It would be disproportionate to publish the detail of each of the 60 visits, but by way of example, the Secretary of State led a delegation of more than 50 UK businesses to China, during the Prime Minister's visit. During the visit he witnessed the signing of a number of commercial deals, addressed business leaders at a Digital China event and attended a China-UK Business Forum.
The Department for International Trade do publish details of Ministerial visits before and during visits through press releases and social media.
Asked by: Andrew Gwynne (Labour - Denton and Reddish)
Question to the Department for International Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, pursuant to the Answer of 27 February 2018 to Question 127970, what meetings he, or Ministers in his Department, have had with representatives from (a) Australia, (b) EU, (c) Canada and (d) the US on their trade remedies system.
Answered by Greg Hands - Minister of State (Department for Business and Trade)
The Government is a supporter of free trade. However, free trade does not mean trade without rules. An important part of our rounded trade policy is that we put in place a trade remedies framework to protect domestic industry from injury as a result of dumping or subsidy, or unforeseen surges in imports.
DIT Ministers have made a combined number of 60 visits to Australia, USA, Canada and EU countries and have had wide ranging discussions on a range of topics including future trade policy options.
Asked by: Andrew Gwynne (Labour - Denton and Reddish)
Question to the Department for International Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, pursuant to Answer of 7 December to Question 118220 on trade agreements; arbitration, which which counterparts in other government departments and existing arms-length bodies his Department held discussions with on the appropriate number of staff needed for the trade remedies authority.
Answered by Greg Hands - Minister of State (Department for Business and Trade)
The organisation design process to determine the precise capacity and capability requirements for the Trade Remedies Authority is ongoing. To inform the process we have held discussions with: the Competition & Markets Authority; the Department for Education, regarding the Office for Students; and the Department for Work and Pensions, regarding the upcoming Single Financial Guidance Body.
Asked by: Andrew Gwynne (Labour - Denton and Reddish)
Question to the Department for International Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, pursuant to Answer of 7 December to Question 118220 on trade agreements: arbitration, which other international systems his Department is reviewing.
Answered by Greg Hands - Minister of State (Department for Business and Trade)
The organisation design process to determine the precise capacity and capability requirements for the Trade Remedies Authority is ongoing. To inform this specific process we have reviewed the structures, caseloads and resources of the Australian, Canadian, EU and United States trade remedies systems.
Asked by: Andrew Gwynne (Labour - Denton and Reddish)
Question to the Department for International Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, how much his Department has spent on (a) taxis, (b) first class train tickets and (c) business class air travel in each quarter since his Department was established.
Answered by Greg Hands - Minister of State (Department for Business and Trade)
The Department for International Trade spend on taxis, first class rail tickets and business class air travel in each quarter is as follows:-
£ (rounded) | Taxi | First Class Rail Tickets | Business Class Air Travel |
July - Sept 2016 | 113,000 | - | 301,000 |
Oct - Dec 2016 | 168,000 | - | 287,000 |
Jan - Mar 2017 | 213,000 | 176 | 451,000 |
Apr - June 2017 | 133,000 | - | 272,000 |
July - Sept 2017 | 146,000 | 49 | 658,000 |
Oct - Nov 2017 | 83,000 | - | 533,000 |
The rail and air figures relate to UK-based staff only and do not include any spend incurred by DIT staff in overseas posts.
Asked by: Andrew Gwynne (Labour - Denton and Reddish)
Question to the Department for International Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, pursuant to the Answer of 1 December 2017 to Question 115520 on Trade Remedies: Arbitration, what assessment his Department has made of the number of staff required to adequately resource the trade remedies investigating authority.
Answered by Greg Hands - Minister of State (Department for Business and Trade)
We are committed to creating a trade remedies authority that has the appropriate number of people, skills and infrastructure to investigate trade remedies cases and assess injury efficiently and effectively.
To inform this process we have reviewed the structure and resources of several other international systems. We have also worked closely with counterparts in other government departments and existing arms-length bodies which perform similar investigative functions.