{"value":{"id":828325,"memberId":4690,"member":null,"memberRole":"Minister of State for Trade and Export Promotion","uin":"HLWS415","dateMade":"2018-01-23T00:00:00","answeringBodyId":202,"answeringBodyName":"Department for International Trade","title":"Prime Minister's Trade Envoys","text":"<p>My Rt hon Friend the Secretary of State for International Trade and President of the Board of Trade (Dr Liam Fox MP) has today made the following statement.</p><p>The Prime Minister has approved two new appointments to the Trade Envoy programme. Ranil Jayawardena MP has been appointed as the Trade Envoy for Sri Lanka and Julian Knight MP, as the Trade Envoy for Mongolia. These new Trade Envoys take the total number to 30 parliamentarians covering 59 markets.</p><p>The Trade Envoy programme is an unpaid and voluntary cross-party network, who support the UK’s ambitious trade and investment agenda in global markets. They have contributed to business wins worth around £19.5 billion.</p>","house":"Lords","noticeNumber":0,"hasAttachments":false,"hasLinkedStatements":true,"linkedStatements":[{"linkedStatementId":828309,"linkType":"JointStatement","linkDate":"2018-01-23T00:00:00"}],"attachments":[]},"links":[{"rel":"self","href":"/Statements/828325","method":"GET"}]}