Asked by: Chris Ruane (Labour - Vale of Clwyd)
Question to the Department for International Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, if he will set out the proportion of total exports for each region of the UK that went to the EU in each of the last three years for which data is available.
Answered by George Hollingbery
Estimates of the percentage of goods exports by UK region are published by HM Revenue and Customs in its Regional Trade Statistics release:
https://www.uktradeinfo.com/statistics/rts/pages/default.aspx
Experimental estimates of the percentage of services exports by GB region are published by the Office for National Statistics, however they do not cover all services (they exclude travel, transport and financial services) and only cover 2011-2015 and Great Britain. https://www.ons.gov.uk/businessindustryandtrade/internationaltrade/articles/estimatingthevalueofserviceexportsabroadfromdifferentpartsoftheuk/2015
The two datasets above cannot be aggregated together due to differences in methodology and coverage.
Asked by: Chris Ruane (Labour - Vale of Clwyd)
Question to the Department for International Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what proportion of his Department's spend on day-to-day goods has comprised fair trade products since it was established.
Answered by Greg Hands
The Department for International Trade is fully committed to ethical procurement, but does not hold information at the level of detail required to answer the question.
Asked by: Chris Ruane (Labour - Vale of Clwyd)
Question to the Department for International Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what percentage of workers employed directly by his Department belonged to a trade union in each year since his Department's formation.
Answered by Greg Hands
The Department for International Trade (DIT) was established in July 2016. The percentage of workers who are trade union members is not held by DIT.
Asked by: Chris Ruane (Labour - Vale of Clwyd)
Question to the Department for International Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, to which organisations his Department has outsourced functions since 2011.
Answered by Greg Hands
The Department for International Trade has not outsourced any core internal functions since it was formally established in 2016 but we did inherit some outsourced contracts from UK Trade and Investment and the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills.
These included some contracts related to Trade promotion work in the UK, and overseas, and corporate services such as HR, IT and Finance functions.
A portion of these contracts have been re-negotiated or re-let since the Department was formed.
Asked by: Chris Ruane (Labour - Vale of Clwyd)
Question to the Department for International Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, how many and what percentage of employees in his Department worked (a) in departmental accommodation, (b) from home and (c) at any other location in the most recent 12-month period for which data is available.
Answered by Greg Hands
The table below sets out the number of employees of the Department for International Trade (DIT), including UK Export Finance, and on payroll, as at 31 January 2018. The total also includes those people working for DIT, based overseas, and paid via the FCO payroll.
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| Number of employees | % |
(a) | Departmental accommodation | 1724 | 54% |
(b) | Home workers (UKEF) | 23 | 1% |
(c) | Other location | 1434 | 45% |
Departmental accommodation is defined as locations occupied and assigned to DIT within the UK. Other location is defined as accommodation that DIT uses principally for overseas staff, which include Embassies and other consular accommodation.
The department operates a range of flexible working arrangements available to employees including home working. Those who have a formal home worker contract are shown above.
Asked by: Chris Ruane (Labour - Vale of Clwyd)
Question to the Department for International Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, how many (a) full-time staff, (b) part-time staff, (c) temporary staff and (d) any other staff were directly employed on zero-hours contracts by his Department in each of the last eight years.
Answered by Greg Hands
The Department for International Trade and UK Export Finance do not currently have any full-time, part-time or temporary staff on zero hours contracts, nor have they directly employed any staff on such contracts since the Department was established.
Asked by: Chris Ruane (Labour - Vale of Clwyd)
Question to the Department for International Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, who the lead non-executive director and other non-executive director board members are in his Department.
Answered by Greg Hands
The names of the Department for International Trade’s four Non-Executive Board Members, including Lead Non-Executive Director, are publically available on the gov.uk website. This information can be found here:
https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/department-for-international-trade
Asked by: Chris Ruane (Labour - Vale of Clwyd)
Question to the Department for International Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, how many and what proportion of his Department's Answers to Written Parliamentary Questions in the 2017-18 Session to date have referred to the information requested not being (a) collected or (b) collated centrally.
Answered by Greg Hands
The Department for International Trade has referred to information requested not being held centrally in five answers this session. This represents less than one per cent of the answers given to date.
Asked by: Chris Ruane (Labour - Vale of Clwyd)
Question to the Department for International Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, (a) how many and (b) what proportion of his Department's Answers to Written Parliamentary Questions have advised that the requested information was not available on the grounds of disproportionate cost associated with data collection and collation in the current session.
Answered by Greg Hands
Since 9 November 2016, the date on which this department became a legal employer, the Department for International Trade (DIT) was unable to provide the information requested in parliamentary questions (PQs) tabled to DIT on the grounds of disproportionate cost on 10 occasions.
This represents 1% of the total number of PQs tabled to and answered by DIT since 9 November 2016.