Overseas Investment
Mr Jim Murphy: To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills in which countries UK Trade and Investment has secured most UK investment in the latest period for which figures are available; and from which countries UKTI has secured the most investment in the UK in the latest period for which figures are available. [90464]
Mr Prisk: UK Trade & Investment (UKTI) does not keep consolidated figures of investments by UK companies overseas, although UKTI trade services can be used to support UK companies planning to invest, or investing, overseas. This can include circumstances in which companies are moving some jobs and operations offshore in order to make their UK business more competitive.
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On securing investment in the UK, UKTI has been involved in the following, in 2010/11, in the top five countries:
| Number of projects | Number of new jobs | Number of safeguarded jobs | Total number of jobs | |
| Source: UKTI database | ||||
Public Sector: Private Sector
Laura Sandys: To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills what plans UK Trade & Investment has for future use of private sector delivery contracts. [90178]
Mr Prisk: UK Trade & Investment (UKTI) has an ambitious target to double its client base to 50,000 over the next four years. The continued development and expansion of outsourcing services to private sector deliverers will play a key role in achieving this target. UKTI’s trade services in the English regions have been outsourced for a number of years, and its inward investment delivery operations were outsourced in 2011, to PA Consulting, on an incentivised basis with rewards linked to performance. UKTI proposes to adopt this approach for new trade service delivery contracts. Overseas, UKTI currently delivers the bulk of its services to UK companies in China through the private sector, and is looking at further options for overseas delivery through the private sector.
Trade Fairs
Laura Sandys: To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills if he will publish UK Trade & Investment's Tradeshow Access Programme for 2012. [90176]
Mr Prisk: The Tradeshow Access programme for 2012/13 is available on UK Trade & Investment's website. The programme calendar can be found at:
www.ukti.gov.uk/tap
Trade Promotion
Laura Sandys: To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills how he plans to assess the effectiveness of the High Value Opportunities scheme. [90177]
Mr Prisk: The High Value Opportunities programme is assessed through the following targets:
1. Support for a minimum of 400 UK businesses per year, at least 300 of which should be small and medium-sized enterprises.
2. At least 70% of businesses helped to access High Value Opportunities to report that UK Trade & Investment (UKTI) had significant favourable influence; as measured through the UKTI Performance and impact measurement system (PIMS).
3. To support UK businesses to win overseas contracts as follows:
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| £ billion | |
4. There will also be a third party evaluation of the programme.
UK Trade & Investment
Laura Sandys: To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills if he will publish UK Trade & Investment's proposed programme of sectorally-focused overseas missions. [90229]
Mr Prisk: UK Trade & Investment is currently finalising its overseas missions programme for 2012-13 and will publish the details in due course.
UK Trade & Investment: Finance
Laura Sandys: To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills what funding his Department has allocated to UKTI in each year from 2010 to 2015. [89309]
Mr Prisk: UK Trade & Investment (UKTI) is a joint department of the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO). UKTI draws on its parent Departments for some business support functions on a shared service basis. This includes accommodation and aspects of Finance, HR and related IT support systems.
The following table sets out the funding BIS has allocated to UKTI in each year from 2010 to 2015.
| £ million | |||||
| 2010-11 | 2011-12 | 2012-13 | 2013-14 | 2014-15 | |
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Estimate of overhead allocation charge for accommodation, IT etc |
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| (1 )Announced in the autumn statement Cm 8231. | |||||
UK Trade & Investment: Manpower
Mr Iain Wright: To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills how many full-time equivalent staff UK Trade & Investment employed in (a) 2010 and (b) 2011; and how many such staff it will employ in (i) 2012 and (ii) 2013. [88632]
Mr Prisk: UKTI is not an employer in its own right; for the majority of its human resource requirements it draws on civil service staff employed by one or other of its two parent Departments, the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS), the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO), and staff from its private sector contractors.
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The number of full-time equivalents (FTEs) working on behalf of UKTI for 2009-10 and 2010-11 is as follows, along with estimates for 2011-12 and 2012-13. Further detail is available from our annual reports available at:
2009-10—2,350
http://www.ukti.gov.uk/uktihome/aboutukti/item/114708.html
2010-11—2,270
http://www.ukti.gov.uk/uktihome/aboutukti/item/171020.html
2011-12—2,403 estimate
2012-13—2,528 estimate
In 2011-12 and 2012-13, UKTI is committed to meeting the reductions set out under its spending review 2010 settlement. These focus on reducing administrative staff in London, funded by BIS. The Autumn Statement (Cm 8231) provided additional resources from 2012-13 to increase private sector front-line delivery, with the aim being to double the number of companies helped to export.
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As a result, we expect there to be a net increase in the number of FTEs employed by our private-sector delivery partners over this two year period, of 133 FTEs in 2011-12 and a further 125 FTEs in 2012-13.
Women and Equalities
EU Law
Priti Patel: To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities which EU (a) directives, (b) regulations and (c) other legislation affecting the Government Equalities Office require transposition into UK law; and what estimate she has made of the cost to (i) the public purse and (ii) the private sector of such measures. [89703]
Lynne Featherstone: I refer my hon. Friend to the answer given by the Minister for Immigration, the hon. Member for Ashford (Damian Green), on 17 January 2012, Official Report, columns 659-60W, to PQ 89673.