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UK Minister for Trade and Investment visits The Netherlands

Lord Green delivered the keynote speech at the Lloyd’s Benelux Annual Maritime Dinner in Rotterdam yesterday.

• From: British Embassy The Hague and Department for Business and Trade Netherlands
• Published: 24 May 2013

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Lord Green, UK Minister for Trade and Investment

Lord Green, British Minister of State for Trade and Investment, told leading Dutch financial experts at the Lloyd´s Maritime Dinner that the UK and The Netherlands have always been and remain important trade and investment partners.

The Dutch are the UK´s second largest foreign investors, measured by stock. In 2012 Dutch investment in the UK created or safeguarded almost 6000 jobs.

Talking about the Maritime sector Lord Green said ´businesses within the sector generate almost £19 billion to UK Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and directly employ 367,000 people´.

Lord Green also met with a range of business people to further strengthen commercial ties between the UK and the Netherlands; promote the work of the Netherlands British Chamber of Commerce; and exchange ideas with opinion leaders on the EU Digital Single Market.

Lord Green

Published 24 May 2013