Question to the Department for International Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, pursuant to the Answer of 27 January 2022 to Question 110333, what the total cost to her Department was of staffing the UK Government’s pavilion at Expo 2020 Dubai.
Expo 2020 Dubai runs from 1 October 2021 to 31 March 2022. Between 1 October and December 31, the latest reporting period available, spend on contracted staffing services at the UK Pavilion of £103,754 was reported. This excludes salaries of DIT staff. Spend on DIT staff working at the event and staff located in the UK providing critical support was reported to be £669,474.