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HANSARDBusiness Exports: Administrative BurdenI talk regularly with businesses, business representatives, and ministerial colleagues about how we can make exporting easier for businesses across the country. That is why I was…19 Nov 2020HANSARDExporting and Transporting UK GoodsThe Department for International Trade is working closely with Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs and others to ensure that businesses are prepared for 1 January. We have delivered…19 Nov 2020HANSARDBusiness Exports: Administrative BurdenAs the hon. Gentleman knows, we have been working flat out to engage with businesses, to provide “easements” on the customs regime up to July next year and to make sure that we…19 Nov 2020HANSARDInward Investment: UK and other European CountriesThere can be no greater or more persistent champion of UK-Pakistan relations than my hon. Friend. The Government remain committed to increasing trade and investment with the…19 Nov 2020HANSARDDraft Common Rules for Exports (EU Exit) Regulations 2020Well, I am welcoming a more moderate direction, and if that stretched all the way to the shadow Secretary of State, that would be good. I am breaking the golden rule of a Minister…14 Oct 2020HANSARDDraft Common Rules for Exports (EU Exit) Regulations 2020I am grateful to the hon. Member for Sefton Central for his contribution. In so far as that was a shift in Her Majesty’s Opposition in support of unfettered trade, I welcome that…14 Oct 2020HANSARDDraft Common Rules for Exports (EU Exit) Regulations 2020I beg to move, That the Committee has considered the draft Common Rules for Exports (EU Exit) Regulations 2020. It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Gray, and I…14 Oct 2020HANSARDDraft Common Rules for Exports (EU Exit) Regulations 2020Information on the powers and the actions that are taken would be publicly available alongside other information, the precise extent of which I am not currently in a position to…14 Oct 2020HANSARDForeign Investment: Don ValleyMy Department recorded 331 foreign direct investment projects in the northern powerhouse in 2019-20, creating or safeguarding more than 11,000 jobs. DIT is dedicated to supporting…08 Oct 2020HANSARDTechnology Sector ExportsTech firms in my hon. Friend’s constituency and across the UK will benefit from the opening of markets and the minimisation of barriers to trade, which will allow them to expand…08 Oct 2020HANSARDTechnology Sector ExportsThere are specific issues, including not having to worry about the added cost of setting up data servers in Japan because of the elements that look at data transfer; a guarantee…08 Oct 2020HANSARDTechnology Sector ExportsTechnology is an important and growing sector. In fact, sales of our digital tech exports totalled £23 billion last year, and Oxford Economics thinks they will be worth up to £31…08 Oct 2020HANSARDTopical QuestionsFirst, let me praise my hon. Friend. If the allocation of free ports were based purely on the championing of their case by Members of Parliament, it would be a certainty that he…08 Oct 2020HANSARDTopical QuestionsMy hon. Friend is right, and last week I announced a new trade hub in Edinburgh, which will help businesses in Scotland to grow internationally and recover from the impact of…08 Oct 2020HANSARDTopical QuestionsI thank my hon. Friend for his question. Innovation has always given our businesses an edge. Virtual Reality and 3D specialist Amazing Interactives in my hon. Friend’s…08 Oct 2020HANSARDExport Finance Guarantee SchemeExport finance guarantees are provided through UK Export Finance, the UK’s world-leading export credit agency. UKEF’s mission is to ensure that no viable UK export fails for lack…08 Oct 2020HANSARDExport Finance Guarantee SchemeThe hon. Gentleman is absolutely right about the need to market more effectively. We have a brilliant suite of products. UKEF is world leading—again and again it is voted the best…08 Oct 2020HANSARDCovid-19: Economic RecoveryAbsolutely—we need more companies like Blachford. That is why we are transforming our digital offer to exporters and negotiating a continuity agreement with Canada. It would be…08 Oct 2020HANSARDCovid-19: Economic RecoverySince the start of covid-19, my Department has been committed to doing everything it can to help exporters. Helping them to bounce back with extensive economic recovery measures…08 Oct 2020HANSARDForeign Investment: Don ValleyMy hon. Friend is absolutely right. How refreshing it is to have a representative in Don Valley who cares about business and recognises that trade needs to look at the wide scope…08 Oct 2020