UK Defence and Security Exports: Small Businesses
(asked on 16th April 2024) - View Source
Question to the Department for Business and Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how much her Department has spent on the SME team at UK Defence and Security Exports in each financial year since 2019-20.
Answered by
Alan Mak
Minister of State (Department for Business and Trade) (jointly with the Cabinet Office)
The department has interpreted this as the amount spent on staffing costs for Civil Servants on DBT payroll within the SME team at UK Defence and Security Exports. The cost for each financial year since 2019-20 is outlined in the table below.
Financial Year | Spend |
Apr 2019 - Mar 2020 | £161,098 |
Apr 2020 - Mar 2021 | £145,676 |
Apr 2021 - Mar 2022 | £65,837 |
Apr 2022- Mar 2023 | £115,881 |
Apr 2023 - Mar 2024 | £99,642 |
Staffing costs include the base salaries, allowances, overtime, non-consolidated performance bonuses and employer National Insurance and pensions contributions for those working in the team during the relevant financial reporting period.
Note: Due to Machinery of Government changes the costs up to and including July 2023 relate to the former Department for International Trade only and then following the transfer of staff in August 2023 to DBT.