Asked by: Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Conservative - The Cotswolds)
Question to the Department for International Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the Tradeshow Access Programme.
Answered by Mark Garnier
In the financial year 2015-16 the Department for International Trade assisted 3,288 individual firms with the Tradeshow Access Programme (TAP). The Department’s survey showed that individual firms assisted by the programme expected the support to result in estimated mean additional export sales of £243,000.
74% of firms supported by TAP expected to enter new markets as a result of this support, and over half of firms supported (52%) had already entered new markets as a result of the support by the time of our survey.
Asked by: Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Conservative - The Cotswolds)
Question to the Department for International Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what steps his Department is taking to improve the maximum period of notice businesses receive of acceptance onto the Tradeshow Access Programme to ensure adequate time to prepare promotions at international tradeshows.
Answered by Mark Garnier
Businesses can make applications from the date the event is published in the TAP programme right up until the cut-off date of 4 weeks prior to the event. The cut-off date is now 4 weeks and changed from 8 weeks in June 2016, to allow flexibility for those who apply late but would benefit from the grant.