Question to the Department for International Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the Tradeshow Access Programme.

In the financial year 2015-16 the Department for International Trade assisted 3,288 individual firms with the Tradeshow Access Programme (TAP). The Department’s survey showed that individual firms assisted by the programme expected the support to result in estimated mean additional export sales of £243,000.

74% of firms supported by TAP expected to enter new markets as a result of this support, and over half of firms supported (52%) had already entered new markets as a result of the support by the time of our survey.