Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs written question – answered at on 18 October 2011.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what recent assessment he has made of progress towards his Department's objective of (a) doubling trade with India, (b) increasing trade with China to 100 billion US dollars per annum, (c) increasing exports to China to 30 billion US dollars per annum, (d) doubling trade with Kuwait, (e) doubling trade with Qatar, (f) increasing trade with the United Arab Emirates to £12 billion per annum, (g) doubling trade with South Africa and (h) doubling trade with Turkey.
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Progress towards achieving these objectives is a long-term commitment for the Government.
UK Trade and Investment and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, supported by a whole-of-government effort, lead on this work. The Government's aim is to use their networks of staff across the globe to showcase UK strengths in sectors where we have world-beating capability. This can pay big commercial dividends, particularly in the more challenging emerging markets.
As trade statistics are a lagging indicator, they will be registered in subsequent exercises that feed into departmental and Government-level assessments.
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