Question to the Department for International Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what plans his Department has to support export businesses grow the sales talent required to take advantage of new export markets.

As announced in the Industrial Strategy, My noble Friend the Minister for State for Trade and Export Promotion (Baroness Fairhead) will lead the creation of a new export strategy. Reporting in spring 2018, the Export Strategy review will ensure that the government has the right financial, practical and promotional support in place for new and existing exporters to sell overseas as we leave the EU. My noble Friend will be engaging with a number of government departments across Whitehall.

In addition to our existing services, we are already piloting intensive export growth support for potential scale-ups and particularly ambitious medium sized businesses.