Ministerial role

Minister of State for Trade and Export Promotion

Organisations: UK Export Finance and Department for International Trade

Responsibilities

The Minister for Trade and Export Promotion leads on the promotion of UK goods and services aboard including the financial arrangements that ensure UK-based companies succeed in the global economy. The minister’s work to support exports forms a key part of the government’s drive to increase productivity and growth across the country through the new Industrial Strategy.

This includes:

  • policy on export promotion, including increasing productivity and ensuring export promotion aligns with the UK’s new trade policy
  • UK Export Finance (UKEF)
  • UK regional delivery of trade promotion activity
  • the GREAT campaign
  • supporting small to medium sized businesses to export, including via intermediaries
  • strategic relationships with UK exporting companies
  • all of the departmental business in the House of Lords, including leading on the Trade Bill in the House of Lords

DIT ministerial lead for the following sectors:

  • technology and smart cities
  • infrastructure
  • energy
  • healthcare
  • life sciences

Previous holders of this role

  1. Baroness Fairhead CBE

    2017 to 2019