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Overseas Trade: Far East

Volume 470: debated on Thursday 24 January 2008

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform what conclusions have been reached on the scope for raising the UK’s trade profile in (a) Malaysia, (b) Qatar, (c) Singapore, (d) South Korea, (e) Thailand and (f) Vietnam, as set out in the July 2006 five year strategy on prosperity in a changing world; and if he will make a statement. (180815)

As outlined in UK Trade and Investment’s (UKTI) five year strategy, “Prosperity in a Changing World”, we have deployed our overseas network resource to achieve a step change in the UK’s profile in emerging markets. To date, the following additional resources (UK-based civil servants and local engaged (LE) officers) have already been deployed or are planned for the following countries in question:

Market

New resource deployed

New resource planned

Malaysia

One UK-based

Qatar

One UK-based and two LE

Singapore

One UK-based

South Korea

Thailand

One UK-based

Vietnam

One UK-based

One LE