Trade Promotion
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how many Independent Trade Advisers were employed by his Department on 30 September in each of the last 5 years.
Answered by Chris Bryant
Assuming that the Member has asked about ‘Independent Trade Advisers’ in error when he means ‘International Trade Advisers’, as of September 2025, the Department for Business and Trade employs 140 International Trade Advisers (ITAs). The table below presents the corresponding figures for the preceding three years. Prior to this period, ITAs were engaged through delivery partners and were therefore not employed by the Department.
Date | ITA Headcount |
October 2022 | 192 |
September 2023 | 154 |
September 2024 | 152 |
September 2025 | 140 |
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