Spending Round 2019: Department for International Trade (DIT)

Department for International Trade (DIT)

Table 2.18: Department for International Trade

The Department for International Trade settlement includes:

• an increase of 2.3% in real terms to the department’s resource budget from 2019-20 to 2020-21;

• additional funding to deliver an ambitious Free Trade Agreement programme;

• funding for the new trade policy framework as the UK leaves the EU;

• funding for the DIT overseas network, regional and sector teams and programme of activities to support UK businesses around the world, break down barriers to trade and strengthen the UK’s leading position as a destination for inward investment;

• continued funding for the DIT-led cross-government GREAT Britain campaign, promoting a truly Global Britain;

• ongoing investment in priority international trade capital projects including to support work to agree free trade agreements and establish an independent trade policy; and

• overall, increases that will take spending to more than 52% over planned spending when the department was created in 2016 and allow the number of staff to increase by 49% and rising.