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To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, if she will list the companies which have received support from the Overseas Projects Fund since 1997, stating in each instance (a) the amount received by each company and (b) the project for which the support was provided. - Includes...

Asked by

Lord Bruce of Bennachie (Liberal Democrat)

Answering body

Department of Trade and Industry

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

10 February 2004

Reference

417 c1363-4W; 151515

House

House of Commons

Dept of Trade and Industry

To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what procedures the UK Trade and Investment Business Group has in place to prevent corruption and bribery on projects supported under the Overseas Projects Fund. - Includes ref to 04.02.2004, 417 c876W.

Asked by

Lord Bruce of Bennachie (Liberal Democrat)

Answering body

Department of Trade and Industry

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

10 February 2004

Reference

417 c1359W; 151514

House

House of Commons

Dept of Trade and Industry

To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what funding has been provided by her Department to help finance (a) the Passport to Export Success scheme, (b) the Overseas Project Fund, (c) the British Overseas Industrial Placement, (d) the Outward Missions Support Unit, (e) inward trade missions, (f)...

Asked by

Lord Cotter (Liberal Democrat)

Answering body

Department of Trade and Industry

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Tabled on

15 January 2004

For answer on

26 January 2004

Answered on

26 January 2004

Brian Cotter: To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what funding has been provided by her Department to help finance (a) the Passport to Export Success scheme, (b) the Overseas Project Fund, (c) the British Overseas Industrial Placement, (d) the Outward Missions Support Unit, (e) inward trade missions, (f) the Export Promoter Initiatives, (g) the Export Marketing Research Initiative, (h) the Export Communications Review, (i) the Framework Programme 6 and (j) the Link Collaborative Research Initiative for each financial year since the inception of each; what funding has been allocated to finance each in future financial years; and if she will estimate the extent to which businesses have benefited from each initiative to date. [149446] Ms Hewitt: The schemes at (a) to (h) are administered by UK Trade and Investment (a joint FCO/DTI Department), and those at (i) and (j) by the Office of Science and Technology (OST) at the DTI. The funding figures available for UK Trade and Investment (UKTI) trade support schemes, and projected funding, are as follows. (a) to (h): Funding details for UK Trade and Investment trade support schemes: Since 2001, funding has been provided to the schemes as follows: £ million _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Outturn Est. outturn Plans 2000-01 2001-02 2002-03 2003-04 2004-05 2005-06 (a) Passport to Export 10 2.1 3.6 5.5 5.0 5.0 (b) Overseas Project 2.1 2.9 2.4 2.5 2.3 0.7 Fund (c) British Ovs. 0.28 0.3 0.3 0.3 0 0 Industrial Placement Scheme (BOND) (d) Outward Missions 1.9 2.1 2.2 2.2 2.2 2.3 Scheme2 (e) Inward Missions 0.3 0.4 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.4 Scheme (f) Export Promoters 4.4 3.0 2.6 2.6 2.8 2.9 Scheme (g) Export Market 1.1 1.2 1.2 1.2 1.2 1.2 Research Initiative (h) Export 0.15 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 Communications Review _________________________________________________________________________________________________. 1 Scheme under development. 2 Vertical missions will be subsumed into the Support for Exhibitions and Seminars Abroad (SESA) scheme as of 1 April 2004. The BOND scheme at (c) ends in March 2004. The support provided by UK Trade and Investment helps businesses to trade successfully in international markets. Those that do so are shown by independent research to be more productive, to pay higher wages and to be more capital intensive than those that do not. The current formal evaluation of the benefits to business from UKTI trade schemes is contained in UKTI's (then British Trade International) Departmental Report (Cm 5915) of May 2003, and in the Autumn Performance Report (Cm 5711) of December 2003, copies of which are in the Libraries of the House. Details of UKTI's 2003-04 performance measurement will be available in late February 2004, and will be included in UKTI's Departmental Report to be published in April 2004. (i) the Framework Programme 6 The EU's Framework Programmes are funded from the EU budget, not DTI. The current budget for the period 2002 to 2006 is è17.5 billion. The programme supports a range of activities including collaborative research and technological development, researcher mobility, scientific infrastructure and co-ordination of national research funding. The Government's Memorandum and response to the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee inquiry (UK Science and Europe: Value for Money?) in 2003 outlined evidence for the benefit to the UK. The Government are examining these issues further in preparation for negotiation of the next programme. UK businesses benefit from participation in the programme in terms of funding, gaining access to European markets and researchers and participation/risk sharing in R&D on cutting edge technologies. (j) the Link Collaborative Research Initiative My Department has funded the LINK Collaborative Research scheme as follows: £000 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. DTI Research Councils Total 1988-97 cumulative 86,873.5 70,369.1 157,242.6 1997-98 11,690.5 13,004.7 24,695.2 1998-99 9,498.1 20,307.3 29,805.4 1999-2000 7,475.1 21,968.2 29,443.3 2000-01 7,330.4 23,403.7 30,734.1 2001-02 9,887.6 23,656.3 33,543.9 2002-03 12,662.1 21,013.2 33,675.3 Total to 2002-03 145,417.3 193,722.5 33,9139.8 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. No specific funding amount is allocated for future years but follows the assessment of proposals for LINK Collaborative Research programmes. Fourteen Government Departments and Research Councils sponsor LINK Collaborative Research. Participating businesses, which provide at least matching support for all Government funding, benefit from involvement in the scheme in a variety of ways. The report of a recent independent Strategic Review of LINK Collaborative Research included estimates of the economic benefits of LINK projects to UK business as follows. Extra business turnover: £700 million-£2,400 million1 Increased profit: £250 million-£500 million1 Increased employment: 15,000-25,000 posts1 1 Figures are low and high estimates for the direct effect of LINK Collaborative Research on the UK economy to 2000-01.

Date

26 January 2004

Reference

417 c91-3W;417 c90-2W; 149446

House

House of Commons

Lords debate on unstarred question on whether they provide an appropriate level of support for the export of United Kingdom environmental technologies and services

Lords debate on unstarred question on whether they provide an appropriate level of support for the export of United Kingdom environmental technologies and services.

Lead member

Lord Wade of Chorlton

Answering member

Lord Sainsbury of Turville

Department

Department of Trade and Industry

Type

Questions for short debate

Date

28 July 1999

Reference

604 c1598-613

House

House of Lords

Dept of Trade and Industry

What are the key functions of the Overseas Projects Board; when the Board was established; by what authority; and if she will list the names of the Chairman and the Secretary.

Asked by

Lord Rowlands (Labour)

Answering body

Department of Trade and Industry

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

22 July 1997

Reference

9630; 298 c505-6W;298 c503-4W

House

House of Commons

Dept of Trade and Industry

Pursuant to the Answer to the honourable Member for Hyndburn of 11th November, Official Report, column 14W, on the Overseas Project Fund, if he will identify each of the projects assisted in each of the last five years. - Information about individual projects is confidential between the company and the...

Asked by

Alan Milburn (Labour)

Answering body

Department of Trade and Industry

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

17 January 1997

Reference

11446; 288 c394W

House

House of Commons

Dept of Trade and Industry

How many projects have been won with Overseas Project Fund assistance in each of the last five years; and if he will identify each project. - Includes table for numbers of projects.

Asked by

Alan Milburn (Labour)

Answering body

Department of Trade and Industry

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

17 January 1997

Reference

11444; 288 c394W

House

House of Commons

Dept of Trade and Industry

How many projects have been funded by the Overseas Projects Fund in each of the last five years. - Figures given.

Asked by

Greg Pope (Labour)

Answering body

Department of Trade and Industry

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

11 November 1996

Reference

3429; 285 c14W

House

House of Commons

Dept of Trade and Industry

How much has been spent in each of the last five years on the Overseas Projects Fund. - Figures given.

Asked by

Greg Pope (Labour)

Answering body

Department of Trade and Industry

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

11 November 1996

Reference

3430; 285 c14W

House

House of Commons

Dept of Trade and Industry

In respect of how many projects funded by the Overseas Project Fund his Department has not had direct contact in (a) the last six months, (b) the last year and (c) the last two years; and what is the total amount of public monies involved. - Figures not given.

Asked by

Greg Pope (Labour)

Answering body

Department of Trade and Industry

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

11 November 1996

Reference

3454; 285 c14W

House

House of Commons

Dept of Trade and Industry

Pursuant to his Answer of 26th March, Official Report, c475W, what reasons were given for the resignation of each of the two members of the Overseas Trade Board who resigned in March 1995, the four members who resigned in May 1995 and the member who resigned in September 1995.

Asked by

Hugh Bayley (Labour)

Answering body

Department of Trade and Industry

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

18 April 1996

Reference

25255; 275 c569W

House

House of Commons

Deposited Paper Dep/3 3078

List of membership of the Overseas Projects Board at December 1994, December 1995 and currently: includes occupations, employing firms, terms of service and (current list only) appointment dates. DTI. 1996.

Deposited by

Department of Trade and Industry

Type

Deposited papers

Date

27 March 1996

Reference

Dep/3 3078

House

House of Commons

Dept of Trade and Industry

If he will update his Answer to the honourable Member for Birmingham, Northfield of 21st February 1994, Official Report, column 22 and list the membership of the Overseas Projects Board in each year from 1977 to 1983, and in 1994, 1995 and currently, indicating the names, occupation and employing firms...

Asked by

Hugh Bayley (Labour)

Answering body

Department of Trade and Industry

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

26 March 1996

Reference

23007; 274 c475W

House

House of Commons

Dept of Trade and Industry

What assessment he has made of the success of the Overseas Projects Board at helping small businesses to win overseas work.

Asked by

Michael Clapham (Labour)

Answering body

Department of Trade and Industry

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

18 July 1995

Reference

34533; 263 c1212W

House

House of Commons

Dept of Trade and Industry

If he will instruct (a) the Overseas Project Board and (b) the Regional Industrial Development Boards to issue an annual report before Parliament. - Includes fact that any annual report published by Overseas Project Board will be placed in Library and ref to annual reports of Industrial Development Act 1982...

Asked by

Jimmy Wray (Labour)

Answering body

Department of Trade and Industry

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

15 May 1995

Reference

260 c30W

House

House of Commons

Dept of Trade and Industry

If he will list the policies and legislation initiated over the past three years that were based on proposals from (a) the Overseas Projects Board, (b) the Offshore Industry Liaison Committee, (c) the Energy Advisory Panel and (d) the Advisory Committee on Coal Research.

Asked by

Nick Harvey (Liberal Democrat)

Answering body

Department of Trade and Industry

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

20 January 1995

Reference

252 c758W;252 c760W

House

House of Commons

Dept of Trade and Industry

What is the programme of work for (a) the Overseas Projects Board, (b) the Offshore Industry Liaison Committee, (c) the Energy Advisory Panel and (d) the Advisory Committee on Coal Research.

Asked by

Nick Harvey (Liberal Democrat)

Answering body

Department of Trade and Industry

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

20 January 1995

Reference

252 c758-9W;252 c760-1W

House

House of Commons

Dept of Trade and Industry

If he will list the functions and objectives of (a) the Advisory Council on Research and Development for Fuel and Power, (b) the Offshore Industry Liaison Committee and (c) the Overseas Projects Board.

Asked by

Nick Harvey (Liberal Democrat)

Answering body

Department of Trade and Industry

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

12 December 1994

Reference

251 c506-7W

House

House of Commons

Dept of Trade and Industry

If he will publish a table showing the number of meetings held, the secretarial and advisory arrangements, the budgeted and actual expenditure and the subjects of any reports and submissions produced by the Overseas Projects Board in each of the last three years.

Asked by

Nick Harvey (Liberal Democrat)

Answering body

Department of Trade and Industry

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

6 December 1994

Reference

251 c126W

House

House of Commons

Deposited Paper DEP/3 231

List of members of the Overseas Projects Board. FCO. 1994.

Deposited by

Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Type

Deposited papers

Date

26 July 1994

Reference

DEP/3 231

House

House of Commons

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