UK Export Finance: West Midlands
(asked on 4th November 2026) - View Source
Question to the Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade, how many small and medium-sized manufacturing businesses based in (a) Coventry and (b) the West Midlands secured supply contracts for projects in Africa supported by UK Export Finance in 2025–26; and what the total value of those contracts was.
Answered by
Blair McDougall
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade) (Jointly with the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)
UK Export Finance (UKEF) does not hold information about the businesses in the supply chains of the exporters whom it supports directly. All transactions that UKEF supports must satisfy the department’s eligibility criteria, including the requirement that the contract demonstrates how it is conducive to supporting or developing exports from the UK.
Independent analysis by Oxford Economic (available online at: Analysing_UKEF_supported_Supply_Chains_-_Oxford_Economics_-_Feb_2026.pdf) suggested that there are 115,000 UK businesses in the supply chains of exporters backed by UKEF.