UK Trade and Investment Lorely Burt To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills how many complaints received by UK Trade and Investment were responded to (a) within one to 10 days, (b) within 11 to 15 days, (c) within 16 to 20 days and (d) more than 21 days after receipt in each of the last four years. Ian Lucas UKTI does not hold this information and to gather these details would be at disproportionate cost. There are over 160 UKTI locations around the world and a complaint can be initiated at any of these points of access. Almost without exception, complaints are dealt with at a local level by our frontline staff without the need to escalate the matter with a referral to the corporate centre. Lorely Burt To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills how many UK Trade and Investment employees have taken time off work as a result of diagnosed stress in each of the last five years. Ian Lucas The number of staff in UKTI (London and Glasgow) who took certified sick leave due to “anxiety/stress/depression/other psychiatric illness” in each of the last five years are as follows: ---------------------- | |Number of staff| ---------------------- |2004|9 | ---------------------- |2005|8 | ---------------------- |2006|10 | ---------------------- |2007|6 | ---------------------- |2008|7 | ---------------------- It is not possible to identify staff who suffered from stress alone. Lorely Burt To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills how many companies who received assistance from UK Trade and Investment in 2008-09 also received assistance from a regional development agency in the same period. Ian Lucas UKTI does not hold these figures. UKTI acts as the trade arm for the regional development agencies (RDAs), providing trade services for companies. Where companies have been helped by both UKTI and the RDAs, it will be on separate forms of business support. Lorely Burt To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills what (a) accommodation and (b) staff costs his Department incurred in relation to UK Trade and Investment employees based overseas in 2008. Ian Lucas Overseas accommodation and staffing costs are borne by our parent Departments, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) and the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills. As part of the end-of year internal cost attribution process, the FCO does produce an estimated cost for overseas expenditure in these categories. In 2008-09 the following costs were attributed to UKTI and are recorded in the UK Trade and Investment Departmental Report and Resource Accounts 2008-09, published 20 July and as presented to the House of Commons. ISBN: 9 78 010296 1706. (a) £24.598 million (b) £51.4 million. Lorely Burt To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills what (a) accommodation and (b) staff costs his Department incurred in relation to employees based at UK Trade and Investment headquarters in 2008. Ian Lucas The costs of UKTI accommodation costs in the UK (London and Glasgow) are primarily funded through BIS administration and those costs are publicly available in the UK Trade and Investment departmental report and resource accounts 2008-09, at pages 116 and 115 respectively, published 20 July and as presented to the House of Commons. ISBN: 9 78 010296 1706. This includes the cost for delivery teams that are co-located with HQ functions in London and Glasgow. Lorely Burt To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills how many UK Trade and Investment staff were based in each region in each of the last four years. Ian Lucas People working for UKTI are either employees of the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office or from the private sector. In the English regions there are 108 civil servants, with the majority of staff being employed by private sector organisations. The following table sets out the number of people working on behalf of UKTI in each region: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |2006 (November)|2007 (October)|2008 (October)|2009 (June)| -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |East of England |44 |46 |42 |39 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |East Midlands |37 |42 |43 |41 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |London |38 |39 |44 |45 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |North East |31 |39 |39 |34 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |North West |41 |49 |43 |40 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |South East |70 |64 |61 |61 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |South West |36 |44 |43 |43 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |West Midlands |53 |58 |58 |52 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Yorkshire and Humber|37 |42 |42 |44 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Total |387 |423 |415 |399 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Lorely Burt To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills which companies in each region received assistance from UK Trade and Investment in each of the last four years. Ian Lucas UKTI collects information on services delivered through the UKTI Performance and Impact Monitoring survey, available at: www.uktradeinvest.gov.uk/ukti/pims However, this information is provided in confidence and the disclosure at the level of individual companies would constitute a breach of confidence actionable by that or any other person. Lorely Burt To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills what expenditure has been incurred on marketing UK Trade and Investment in each of the last four years. Ian Lucas Marketing of UK Trade and Investment is an integrated part of the promotion of exporting/trade development or marketing of the UK, not a separate function. UKTI Marketing Group programme spend over the last four years: ------------------- | |£ Million| ------------------- |2008-09|10 | ------------------- |2007-08|9.1 | ------------------- |2006-07|9.8 | ------------------- |2005-06|9.7 | ------------------- This represents programme expenditure by UKTI’s Marketing Group only and does not represent UKTI’s total expenditure on marketing the UK and UKTI’s services. Additional expenditure is spread across UKTI’s groups to varying degrees over the four year period. Note: These figures include spend on activity in the UK and overseas, the latter predominantly, though not exclusively, being activity to help achieve foreign direct investment targets. It also includes spend on developing the sector marketing strategies. Lorely Burt To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills what assessment has been made of UK Trade and Investment’s performance against its targets for attracting (a) high value, (b) good quality and (c) priority projects in each of the last four years. Ian Lucas Foreign direct investment targets according to (a) high value, (b) good quality and (c) priority project classifications have only been used for the last two years. Previously, UKTI has benchmarked against knowledge driven targets. Targets for 2007-08 to 2009-10 and outturn for 2007-08 and 2008-09 are as follows: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |Target 2007-08 to 2009-10|Outturn 2007-08|Outturn 2008-09| ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- |(a) High Value |125 |182 |262 | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- |(b) Good Quality|285 |255 |244 | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- |(c) RDA Priority|115 |112 |94 | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Totals |525 |549 |600 | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Lorely Burt To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills how much was spent on (a) car hire, (b) train travel, (c) air travel, (d) hotels and (e) restaurants by UK Trade and Investment in each of the last four years. Ian Lucas UK Trade and Investment (UKTI) does not directly employ staff but draws on resource from its two parent Departments, the Department for Business Innovation and Skills (BIS) and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO). UKTI has offices in 98 different countries, the nine English regions, London and Glasgow. UKTI holds financial information on travel costs at the aggregate level centrally whilst detailed information is held locally. To provide the information requested would require obtaining detailed information from each location and therefore can only be obtained at disproportionate cost. Lorely Burt To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills how much was spent on (a) standard, (b) business and (c) first class air travel by UK Trade and Investment in each of the last four years. Ian Lucas UK Trade and Investment (UKTI) does not directly employ staff but draws on resource from its two parent Departments, the Department for Business Innovation and Skills (BIS) and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO). UKTI has offices in 98 different countries, the nine English regions, London and Glasgow. UKTI holds financial information on travel costs at the aggregate level centrally whilst detailed information is held locally. To provide the information requested would require obtaining detailed information from each location and therefore can be obtained only at disproportionate cost. Lorely Burt To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills how much financial assistance UK Trade and Investment provided to businesses in the defence sector (a) in total and (b) as a proportion of the financial assistance provided to all businesses in each of the last four years. Ian Lucas On the 1 April 2008 responsibility for defence trade promotion transferred from the Ministry of Defence to UK Trade and Investment (UKTI). The cost of defence trade promotion is jointly borne by UKTI, the Department for Business Innovation and Skills and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. As set out in UKTI's Departmental Report and Resource Accounts 2008-09, total expenditure was £323.2 million. Of this £301.6 million (93.3 per cent.) was spent in supporting businesses not from the defence and security sector, leaving £21.6 million (6.7 per cent) on businesses in the defence and security sector. Figures prior to 2008-09 are not available on a comparable basis and can be obtained only at disproportionate cost. Lorely Burt To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills how much UK Trade and Investment spent on consultants and other external advice in each of the last four years. Ian Lucas This information is only held for the previous three years. It is publicly available in the UK Trade and Investment Departmental Report and Resource Accounts 2008-09, published 20 July 2009 and as presented to the House of Commons. ISBN: 9 78 010296 1706 and in the corresponding publication of the previous year that gives figures for both 2006-07 and 2007-08. Lorely Burt To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills how many employees of UK Trade and Investment attended the Beijing Olympics in July 2008 in an official capacity. Ian Lucas No UKTI employees attended the Beijing Games in July 2008 in an official capacity.