Asked by: Karl McCartney (Conservative - Lincoln)
Question to the Department for International Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, with reference to the potential acquisition of Newcastle football club by Saudi Arabia, what discussions she has had with her Cabinet colleagues on the potential effect of internet piracy by state-sponsored pirate broadcasters such as beoutQ on the export value of the UK creative industry's intellectual property.
Answered by Graham Stuart - Minister of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)
Officials in the Department for International Trade work closely with their counterparts in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport and the Intellectual Property Office on matters relating to the protection of intellectual property (IP) rights around the world.
Government ministers and our Ambassador to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia have raised this matter with the Saudi Arabian government and will continue to make representations about any alleged broadcast infringement activities of UK IP.
We understand broadcasting piracy on satellite in Saudi Arabia, through the pirate operator beoutQ, has now stopped. This followed pressure by the UK, the US, European countries, and major sports rights holders.
We are aware that there are continued issues of infringement of UK-owned intellectual property rights across all industries through the use of IPTV apps, and we will work with the IPO to address these issues and work to protect UK intellectual property in all territories.
Asked by: Karl McCartney (Conservative - Lincoln)
Question to the Department for International Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what assessment he has made of SME business interest in the great.gov.uk digital platform.
Answered by Mark Garnier
great.gov.uk is designed to engage as many businesses as possible, especially SMEs, and to date we have had a highly positive response to our digital services with over 5000 businesses registered for accounts, including 1500 registrations for our “Find a Buyer” Service and over 360,000 visits to the site.
Asked by: Karl McCartney (Conservative - Lincoln)
Question to the Department for International Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what assessment he has made of the level of SME business interest in the great.gov.uk digital platform.
Answered by Greg Hands - Minister of State (Department for Business and Trade)
DIT’s marketing campaign is targeting high potential SMEs across a number of channels and directing them to GREAT.gov.uk. We're focusing predominantly on young, small businesses with a modest turnover that have the potential to export their products and services overseas. Since going live, over 200,000 users have visited GREAT.gov.uk. More than 12,186 users have made use of our Selling Online Overseas service and 1100 businesses have created a profile on our ‘Find a Buyer’ service.