Department for Business & Trade

Department’s core capabilities

We are the department for economic growth.

We support businesses to invest, grow and export, creating jobs and opportunities across the country.

▪ We redraw our rules to ensure businesses thrive, markets are competitive and consumers are protected.

▪ Secure investment from UK and international businesses.

▪ Advise, support, and promote British businesses to grow and export.

▪ Open up new markets for businesses by removing barriers and striking trade deals.

▪ Promote free trade, economic security and resilient supply chains.

Key references

We help foreign companiesbuy goods and services from the UK - great.gov.ukinternational

We can help identify relevant partners, suppliers and subcontractors either through our online services or on a case by casebasis. We can organised workshops to find innovative solutions to your projects’ issues. Examples of past workshops: marine coordination, cable design, installation and maintenance to help reducethe LCOE, port infrastructure to adapt it for offshore wind deployment at commercial scale.

We work across government and can facilitate engagement with with other government departments such as Department for Energy Security and Net zero (DESNEZ) or UK Export Finance: https://www.ukexportfinance.gov.uk/who-we- can-help/internationalbuyers/ the world’s oldest export credit agency

Contact details

Mia Barclay, SeniorTrade & Investment Adviser Email: mia.barclay@fcdo.gov.uk

Telephone: +33 6 08 96 37 98

Address: Ambassade Britannique, 35 rue du Faubourg Saint Honoré, 75008 Paris Website: https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/department-for-business-and-trade

We help new or existing foreign companies invest in the UKgreat.gov.ukinternationalat every stage of the project.

1. Planning – selecting the best mode of entry, benchmarking…

2. Exploration – shortlisting location and sites, advising on the best environment…

3. Negotiation – Finding the best incentives,suppliers…

4. Set up – helping with licences,permits, bank accounts,HR, schools…

5. Aftercare– tax, promotionof your new activity…

We help undo market access and trade policy barriers