Question to the Department for International Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what steps his Department is taking to improve the maximum period of notice businesses receive of acceptance onto the Tradeshow Access Programme to ensure adequate time to prepare promotions at international tradeshows.

Businesses can make applications from the date the event is published in the TAP programme right up until the cut-off date of 4 weeks prior to the event. The cut-off date is now 4 weeks and changed from 8 weeks in June 2016, to allow flexibility for those who apply late but would benefit from the grant.