Question to the Department for Business and Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, with reference to Government transparency data entitled DIT: spending over £25,000 for October 2022, for what purpose her Department spent £35,854.49 on corporate event management and marketing at Identity Holdings Ltd on 28 October 2022, transaction reference number 469825.

The charge referenced in the question relates to event management services and third-party costs that Identity Holdings incurred in delivering Singapore Fintech Week on behalf of the former Department for International Trade in 2022.