Question to the Department for International Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, with reference to the announcement on 11 November 2021 by her Department of the Clean Growth programme, how many businesses in England received support from that programme in each month in (a) 2021 and (b) 2022, broken down by English region.

The Clean Growth programme was launched at COP26 as one of the Department for International Trade’s (DIT) priority campaigns, to promote the UK’s innovative green exporters. DIT does not hold overall numbers of businesses supported, but statistics for key programme deliverables are captured. For example, November’s Green Trade and Investment Expo brought together 160 of the most important international investors, exporters and innovators, while our digital COP27 Pavilion saw 7000 visitors. Together these had a social media reach of more than 170k impressions.