Asked by: Dehenna Davison (Conservative - Bishop Auckland)
Question to the Department for International Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what steps her Department has taken to increase exports of digital services.
Answered by Mike Freer - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Justice)
The UK has been at the forefront of seizing the benefits of digital trade, including through our FTA programme. For example, the UK-Singapore Digital Economy Agreement, signed in February, represents the most innovative digital trade agreement ever signed. Already, DIT has engaged nearly 100 companies through a webinar and trade mission on the benefits of the deal for business. The Department also has a Digital Exporting Programme which helps SME to increase exports through digital channels, for example those in the music industry. So far, the Programme has supported in excess of 10,000 companies.