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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 14 Mar 2019
Oral Answers to Questions

"Thank you, Mr Speaker. Will the Minister for Women and Equalities join me in condemning the wording of letter ESA65B from the Department for Work and Pensions—the letter asks general practitioners to cease issuing fit notes to people with disabilities awaiting an appeal for employment and support allowance—and help ensure …..."
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Written Question
Export Credit Guarantees
Friday 1st February 2019

Asked by: Ruth George (Labour - High Peak)

Question to the Department for International Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what estimate he has made of the total amount of funding provided to businesses by UK Export Finance; and what proportion of that support was provided to SMEs in each of the last five years.

Answered by Graham Stuart

The value of support provided by UK Export Finance (UKEF) for exports, including the percentage share of support for SMEs, is shown in the table:

Financial Year

Business supported, £m

Value of support for SMEs, £m

Proportion of the value of support for SMEs, %

FY13/14

2,272

199

9%

FY14/15

2,730

122

4%

FY15/16

1,793

155

9%

FY16/17

2,966

89

3%

FY17/18

2,530

195

8%

UKEF offers a range of short-term products to help SMEs fulfil export contracts. The typical value of each facility provided through this range is under £2m but enables SMEs to fulfil export contracts of greater value than the support they receive. UKEF has supported £2.5bn in export contracts for SMEs through this product range over the last 5 years. In 2017-18, 77% of all companies UKEF supported were SMEs.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 14 Jan 2019
European Union (Withdrawal) Act

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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 14 Jan 2019
European Union (Withdrawal) Act

"The Secretary of State is making a case against all the alternatives, but is it not the case, as he himself has set out, that there are no legally binding certainties in the future declaration? As he himself set out, we will be seeking to please both the USA and …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 14 Jan 2019
European Union (Withdrawal) Act

"Does my hon. Friend agree that the problems of regulatory alignment with very different actors such as the United States of America and the EU, with which we will both seek to do a free trade agreement, will make it extremely difficult for us to conclude agreements with both? We …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 14 Jan 2019
European Union (Withdrawal) Act

"It gives me pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Witney (Robert Courts).

The debate on our relationship with the EU has been dominated today by slogans and emotion, but it is actually about our trade arrangements, which are a very practical matter. It is business that is most affected, …..."
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