Asked by: Justin Tomlinson (Conservative - North Swindon)
Question to the Department for International Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what recent estimate his Department has made of trends in the level of foreign direct investment into the licensed hospitality industry in the UK.
Answered by Mark Garnier - Shadow Parliamentary Under Secretary (Work and Pensions)
Neither the Department for International Trade (DIT) nor the Office for National Statistics (ONS) breaks down the level of foreign direct investment into the licensed hospitality industry.
Asked by: Justin Tomlinson (Conservative - North Swindon)
Question to the Department for International Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, which countries he has opened a dialogue with on trade deals after the UK leaves the EU.
Answered by Greg Hands
We have established a series of working groups and high-level dialogues with key trading partners, to explore the best ways to progress our trade and investment relationships. We have already announced ten working groups with the United States, Australia, China, Israel, India, New Zealand, Norway, South Korea, Turkey and the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC).
Asked by: Justin Tomlinson (Conservative - North Swindon)
Question to the Department for International Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what the value of exports emanating from Swindon was in each year since 2010.
Answered by Mark Garnier - Shadow Parliamentary Under Secretary (Work and Pensions)
Data relating to the geographical area including Swindon are published as per below:
a) Swindon Growth Hub - These figures cover trade in goods only for 2015. The Swindon Growth Hub is defined as an area that incorporates all of SN and BA postcodes – see attached spreadsheet, taken from the link below:
https://www.uktradeinfo.com/Statistics/Pages/FreedomofInformation.aspx
Source: HM Revenue and Customs.
b) HMRC Regional Trade Statistics database – These figures cover trade in goods only since 1996. Data are available for the Government Region South West and all other Government Regions:
https://www.uktradeinfo.com/Statistics/RTS/Pages/default.aspx
Source: HM Revenue and Customs.
c) ONS Regionalised Estimates of UK Services Exports – These are experimental statistics covering trade in services during 2011-2014. These data are on a different basis than the HMRC data in (a) and (b) above. Data are available for the Government Region South West and all other Government Regions – see attached spreadsheet, taken from the link below:
Source: Office for National Statistics
Asked by: Justin Tomlinson (Conservative - North Swindon)
Question to the Department for International Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, with which governments of non-EU countries he has discussed future trade agreements since his Department was created.
Answered by Mark Garnier - Shadow Parliamentary Under Secretary (Work and Pensions)
We will take advantage of all the opportunities available to us to ensure that Britain becomes the global leader in free trade once we leave the EU. As the Prime Minister has recently said, countries including Canada, China, India, Mexico, Singapore and South Korea have already told us they would welcome talks on future free trade agreements. And we have already agreed to start scoping discussions on trade agreements with Australia. More recently, my Rt. Hon Friend the Secretary of State for International Trade announced the establishment of a UK-New Zealand trade policy dialogue that will cover market access and trade policy issues of mutual interest.
Asked by: Justin Tomlinson (Conservative - North Swindon)
Question to the Department for International Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, if his Department will look at examples of best practice in attracting foreign direct investment (a) in Swindon and (b) across the UK.
Answered by Greg Hands
The Department is continuously seeking to identify and share best practice from across the UK.
The Department works in partnership with Swindon & Wiltshire Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) and Swindon Borough Council to deliver foreign direct investment to Swindon. My officials will continue to work with them to look at further examples of best practice.