Trade Promotion: Public Appointments

(asked on 13th November 2017) - View Source

Question to the Department for International Trade:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what is the timetable for appointing the new network of Trade Commissioners, as described on page 29 of the Department for International Trade’s October document, Preparing for our future trade policy.


Answered by
Baroness Fairhead Portrait
Baroness Fairhead
This question was answered on 22nd November 2017

The nine new Her Britannic Majesty’s Trade Commissioners will form a cadre of senior leaders for the Department for International Trade, who will lead and drive our future commercial and trading relationships with our overseas partners. We anticipate that all appointments will be made in 2018.

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