Written question asked by Andrew Selous (Conservative) on Monday, 18 March 2002, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Monday, 25 March 2002. It was answered by Nigel Griffiths (Labour) on Monday, 25 March 2002 on behalf of the Department of Trade and Industry.

Dept of Trade and Industry

Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what public funding Trade Partners UK has had in each year since 1981 in (a) actual and (b) real terms. - Inc table and refs to reports of British Trade International (Cm 5123), Department of Trade and Industry (Cm 5112). Also inc ref to info placed in Library.

Answer: Andrew Selous: To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what public funding Trade Partners UK has had in each year since 1981 in (a) actual and (b) real terms. [45008] Nigel Griffiths: Trade Partners UK was launched in May 2000 and is the trade promotion and development arm of British Trade International. Programme funding of the Government's trade promotion and development activities from 1999, the year British Trade International was established, is as follows: _________________________________________________________________________________________________. £ million 1999-2000 outturn 56.6 2000-01 outturn 70.5 2001-02 budget 68.0 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. I have placed in the Libraries of the House a more detailed breakdown of current Government support for trade development and promotion, in the expenditure plans reports of British Trade International (Cm 5123), the Department of Trade and Industry (Cm 5112), the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (Cm 5110) and British Trade International's resource accounts for 2000-01 (HC 526). I have placed in the Libraries of the House information about Government support for trade development and promotion in earlier years, in the expenditure plans reports of the Department of Trade and Industry and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.

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