Question to the Department for International Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, how many companies offered direct support for overseas investment or commercial trade deals by (a) UK Export Finance and (b) other parts of her Department have been subject to corruption or bribery investigations in each year since 2016.

UK Export Finance (UKEF) is not an investigatory body. As such, it is only aware of such investigations as have been made public by law enforcement agencies.

The Department for International Trade (DIT) does not hold such data for the 10,000 business interactions it conducts each month across 108 countries.

Both DIT and UKEF have clear policies in place enabling all staff to report any suspicions or suspicious behaviour immediately to the relevant authorities.