Government sets out trade and investment strategy
'Trade and Investment for Growth' (Cm. 8015) sets out the Government's strategy to meet the challenge of growing trade and investment. It puts forward an ambitious framework to do that based on the results of a government consultation conducted with business, academics and non-government organisations (NGOs).
The report further explains how Ministers and officials across government should aim to create the best possible environment in the UK for trade and inward investment, and to deliver the practical support businesses need to trade and invest.
Number and cost of coal health compensation claims 'greatly exceeded' initial forecasts
In January 1998, the Department of Trade and Industry (now the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform and the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills) took responsibility for the accumulated personal injury liabilities of the British Coal Corporation.
This report from the Committee of Public Accounts, 'Coal Health Compensation Schemes'
(HC 350), examines the Department's handling of the two compensation schemes that it introduced.
UKTI's five-year strategy reviewed
The role of UK Trade & Investment (UKTI) is to promote
both foreign investment into the UK and support UK exporters.
This
Report
'Marketing
UK plc - UKTI's five-year strategy' (HC 557), from the House of Commons
Trade and Industry Committee, looks at both this role and the key aspects of
its strategy.