Geoffrey Clifton-Brown welcomes the Government target of 100,000 new businesses exporting by 2020 and calls for support to encourage small and medium-sized businesses to export for the first time.

Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (The Cotswolds) (Con): Is it not vital that my right hon. Friend’s target of 100,000 new businesses exporting by 2020 is met by lighting that spark in small and medium-sized businesses to export for the first time and, above all, to keep exporting?

Sajid Javid: My hon. Friend is absolutely right. Not enough British businesses export. More than double the number of businesses export in Germany compared with that in the UK, so we can do more and that is at the heart of the Government’s strategy.

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