Small Businesses: Exports
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how much funding her Department has provided to help support small and medium-sized enterprises to export in each of the last 15 years; and how much funding his Department has made available for this purpose in the 2024-25 financial year.
Answered by Gareth Thomas
Given changes within the department and across government over the last 15 years further information on export specific funding cannot be provided without breaching the disproportionate cost limit.
The cost of support for SMEs to export over the previous 7 years is 2018/19 at £47.1m, 2019/20 £45.9m, 2020/21 £45.0m, 2021/22 £45.6m, 2022/23 £49.3m, 2023/24 £44.2m and 2024/25 £31.8m. This includes funding for grant programmes that have now concluded such as the Tradeshow Access Programme, UK Tradeshow Programme, Overseas Business Network initiative, and Internationalisation Fund.
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