Question to the Department for International Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, how many overseas contracts UK Export Finance has supported in which the applicant declared that an agent had provided facilitation services in each year since 2010.

UK Export Finance (UKEF) has reviewed applications including agents, from 1 July 2014 – 30 June 2015 and is in the process of reviewing applications from 1 July 2012 – 30 June 2014. All applications reviewed indicate that UKEF has not provided support to any overseas contract where the application declared that an agent provided facilitation services.

The majority of UKEF’s historic application forms were received prior to the introduction of an electronic management system. An answer extending to 2010 could only be provided at disproportionate cost.