§ Mr. Brocklebank-Fowlerasked the Secretary of State for Trade if he will list the Government's schemes for assisting British exporters to develop overseas markets and his latest estimate of the likely disbursements under each scheme during the current financial year.
§ Mr. Peter ReesI list the disbursements under the British Overseas Trade Board Schemes, operated by my Department, to assist British exporters, and also those 285W schemes of assistance which do not include any direct disbursements. In addition advice and assistance in individual markets is available to exporters from regional offices, headquarters staff in the market branches and posts overseas, through personal contact and a range of publications. The list is as follows:
Estimate of gross disbursements expected for the financial year 1981–82 £000 Trade missions and other related activities 1,827 Trade fairs and similar activities 15,900 British export marketing centre, Tokyo 450 Market entry guarantee scheme 1,641 Grants in aid and other assistance to non-official trade organisations 1,257 Industrial training schemes 210 Overseas projects fund 2,650 Assistance to overseas marketing research 450 Other miscellaneous export promotion expenditure 346 24,731 Other BOTB export schemes not involving disbursements are:
- Export intelligence services
- Market advisory service
- Status reports.