Question to the Department for Business and Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how many staff positions in export support services will be reduced in each individual export market as a result of the Department's workforce reduction programme.

As set out in the Trade Strategy our overseas network will increasingly focus on the markets, sectors and opportunities that will drive UK economic growth for the next decade and beyond. We will have fewer export support staff in some markets as we focus more of our resource on attracting high value inward investment and tackling the market access barriers that hold British exporters back. We are working through the specific impact in each market, but directly supporting British exporters will remain the biggest part of what DBT teams do overseas.