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Exports: Environment Protection

Volume 471: debated on Monday 4 February 2008

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform which Government agencies have provided support for exports from UK-based environmental industries in each year since 2005; what the budget for this work was for each agency in each year; and if he will make a statement. (182340)

UK Trade and Investment (UKTI) is the Government organisation that supports companies in the UK doing business internationally and overseas enterprises seeking to set up or expand in the UK. It brings together the work of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) and the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform. The Environmental Industries Sector Unit (EISU) is a Government unit, operating within the Sector Group of UKTI, with responsibility for promoting the UK environmental industry overseas.

EISU budget from 2005 for the environment sector were as follows:

£

2005-06

1,078,000

2006-07

1,118,000

2007-08

882,000