UK exporters given £6.8bn of support last year Government says backing helped to maintain 47,000 British jobs

Sam Lowe, a senior research fellow at the Centre for European Reform, said UKEF’s increased activity was welcome. “It falls into the category of things we could have done before Brexit but have more prominence now because there has been an increased focus on trade. We are paying a lot more attention to this sort of thing which is good.”
Mr Lowe added: “UKEF’s activity makes money until one of these deals go wrong but to my knowledge there hasn’t been a recent upset.”