atisn 11936 - welsh government · 2019-01-25 · foi/req/esnr/overseas events in 2016-17 (11936) 1....

E&T FOI Team Welsh Government

Treforest – QED Centre

Main Avenue Treforest Industrial

Estate

Ponty pridd CF37 5YR

[email protected]

[email protected]

www.gov.wales

Rydym yn croesawu derbyn gohebiaeth yn Gymraeg. Byddwn yn ateb gohebiaeth a dderbynnir yn Gymraeg yn Gymraeg ac ni fydd gohebu yn Gymraeg yn arwain at oedi.

We welcome receiving correspondence in Welsh. Any correspondence received in Welsh will be answered in Welsh and corresponding in Welsh will not lead to a delay in responding.

14 February 2018

Dear , Request for Information – ATISN 11936

I wrote to you on 24 January regarding your request for information. You asked for information regarding Welsh Government Overseas Events in 2016-17: 1. The cost of each overseas event attended by the Welsh Government in 2016-17. 2. The details of the companies that attended each Welsh Government Overseas Event in 2016-17. 3. The number of SMEs that attended each overseas trade event accompanied by the Welsh Government in 2016-17. 4. The ratio of SMEs to non-SMEs that attended each overseas event accompanied and subsidised by the Welsh Government in 2016-17. 5. The number of companies subsidised by the Welsh Government that attended multiple overseas events alongside the Welsh Government in 2016-17. Please include the companies’ names. I can confirm that we hold the information relating to your request and this has been enclosed. If you are dissatisfied with the Welsh Government’s handling of your request, you can ask for an internal review within 40 working days of the date of this response. Requests for an internal review should be addressed to the Welsh Government’s Freedom of Information Officer at: Information Rights Unit, Welsh Government, Cathays Park, Cardiff, CF10 3NQ or [email protected]. Please remember to quote the ATISN reference number above. You also have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner. The Information Commissioner can be contacted at: Information Commissioner’s Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 5AF. However, please note that the Commissioner will not normally investigate a complaint until it has been through our own internal review process.

Ein cyf/Our ref ATISN 11936

mailto:[email protected]


http://www.gov.wales/


Yours sincerely

FOI/REQ/ESNR/Overseas Events in 2016-17 (11936)

1. The cost of each overseas event attended by the Welsh Government in 2016-17 Event Location Dates Costs* Food & Hotel Asia Singapore 12-15 April 2016 £ 12,989.35 Hannover Messe Hannover, Germany 24-27 April 2016 £ 2,858.24 Trade Mission Kuwait, Qatar, UAE

and Oman 7-24 May 2016 £ 24,734.24

Trade Development Visit

Norway and Denmark 23-27 May 2016 £ 39,626.96

Trade Mission Toronto, Canada 12-17 June 2016 £ 3,902.88 Trade Mission Mumbai, India 10-17 September

2016 £ 19,509.58

Innotrans Berlin, Germany 20-23 September 2016

£ 41,639.70


Canada 26 September-1 October 2016

£ 33,473.65

Trade Mission Osaka, Japan 8-15 October 2016 £ 36,724.08 MRO Europe Amsterdam,

Netherlands 13-15 October 2016 £ 54,280.94

Trade Mission Tehran, Iran 15-21 October 2016 £ 40,760.39 SIAL Paris, France 16-20 October 2016 £ 169,140.25 Export Explorer Trade Mission

Dublin, Ireland 31 October-3 November 2016

£ 16,395.53

ADIPEC & Trade Mission

Abu Dhabi and UAE 5-11 November 2016 £ 89,850.34

Ocean Energy Europe Brussels, Belgium 6-10 November 2016 £ 61,936.25 MEDICA Dusseldorf, Germany 14-17 November 2016 £ 190,577.95 Trade Development Visit

Spain 15-17 November 2016 £ 37,070.00

Arab Health Dubai, UAE 23-26 January 2017 £ 216,415.86 Trade Development Visit

Netherlands and Belgium

6-9 February 2017 £ 36,514.10

Trade Mission Jeddah, Saudi Arabia 11-17 February 2017 £ 9,077.79 Trade Mission Shanghai and Hong

Kong, China 25 February - 4 March 2017

£ 26,758.03

Games Development Conference

San Francisco, USA 27 February - 3 March 2017

£ 67,339.26

Trade Mission Dubai, UAE 25 February-3 March 2017

£ 38,481.19

Gulfood Dubai, UAE 26 February-2 March 2017

£ 210,165.91

Trade Mission New York, USA 5-10 March 2017 £ 25,588.38

* Costs are gross expenditure from programme budgets (core and ERDF) less Private Sector Income (PSI).

2. The details of the companies that attended each Welsh Government Overseas Event in 2016/17. Food & Hotel Asia - Singapore Daioni Organic Dairy Partners Hannover Messe - Hannover, Germany Lloyd Morris Electrical Haydale Trade Mission - Kuwait, Qatar, UAE and Oman Rachel’s Organics BCB International Atlantis Consultancy and Training The British Rototherm Company Alpha Omega College R-TECH Materials Dividers Folding Partitions Global Tooling Solutions GEM Conren Teddington Engineered Solutions Trade Development Visit - Norway and Denmark Good Carb Food Co Govindas Foods/Pudology Halen Mon Penlon Cottage Brewery Whole Pleasure Tiny Rebel Gower Brewery Bluestone Brewing Purple Moose Calbee Sims Foods Fruitapeel Burts Biscuits & Cakes Otley Brewing Plas Farm Trade Mission - Toronto, Canada Advanced Secure Technologies Digital Secure Systems Rotafix Northern Analysis Technologies Timberkits

Trade Mission - Mumbai, India Manutech Europe Bionema Compact Orbital Gears Pero Foods Daioni Organic FSG Tool and Die Parc Gwyddoniaeth Menai / Menai Science Park Markes International Dairy Partners Dividers Folding Partitions Innotrans - Berlin, Germany GOS Tool & Engineering Services Neterson Holdings Ltd (Tritech Group) Wrexham Mineral Cables The Aluminium Lighting Company AB Connectors Trade Development Visit - Canada Gower Brewery Otley Brewing Purple Moose Wrexham Lager Burts Biscuits & Cakes Dawn Meats Good Carb Food Co Sims Foods Trade Mission - Osaka, Japan Dr Zigs Extraordinary Bubbles Adamas Studios Bangor University Manutech Europe i2L Research NutraSteward Melin Tregwynt Amber Energy Consultants Apple County Cider Co The Pembrokeshire Beach Food Company Blue Mountain Group Celtic English Academy Fulcrum Direct V-Trak The Glam Camping Company Reid Lifting Snowdonia Cheese Company Penderyn

MRO Europe - Amsterdam, Netherlands Wall Colmonoy eCube Solutions Spectrum Technologies Cottam & Brookes PPA Air Covers Trade Mission – Tehran, Iran Wrexham Mineral Cables The British Rototherm Company Design Security Industrial Automation & Control UnimaQ Comtek Network UK SIAL - Paris, France Radnor Hills Nimbus Foods Welsh Hills Bakery Calbee Daioni Organic Plas Farm Snowdonia Cheese Company Dairy Partners Bridgehead Food Partners Ty Nant Spring Water Llanllyr Water Brighter Foods Coconut Kitchen Good Carb Food Co Export Explorer Trade Mission - Dublin, Ireland Interceptor Solutions Procter Machine Guarding Smart Storm BJ Seals Kale & Bee Liberty Marketing YouLearnWater Sharp Clinical Services Tomoe Valve Deeplake PCI Pharma Services

ADIPEC & Trade Mission - Abu Dhabi and UAE X-Ray Mineral Services Wall Colmonoy Huntingdon Fusion Techniques Tomoe Valve Robertson Geologging Global Tooling Solutions R-Tech Materials Concrete Canvas Amnitec Geo Smart Decisions The British Rototherm Company Hobbs Valve Penfro Consultancy PetroStrat NPTC Group of Colleges Vale Media Group Tutis Energy Vessel Protection Solutions Rachel’s Organics Calon Wen Organic Dairy Produce Chemostrat Ocean Energy Europe - Brussels, Belgium Port of Milford Haven Marine Energy Pembrokeshire MarineSpace Menter Mon Mainstay Marine Solutions Monalifting Marine Power Systems Tidal Lagoon Power Nova Innovation MEDICA - Dusseldorf, Germany Blackwood Embedded Solutions Cosmeditech Cloud Cair Cutest DTR Medical EKF Diagnostics Frio UK GX PDR Pelican Feminine Healthcare Porvair Sciences Rocialle The Sure Chill Company

Ultrasound Technologies Cellpath Jellagen Momentum Bioscience Neem Biotech OSP Healthcare TS Design Benchmark Skincare Energist Medical Group Frio Astrid Europe Indoor Biotechnologies Life Sciences Hub Wales MediWales Totally Cool Fulcrum Direct Microsens Biophage Abel & Imray Ace Feet in Motion Alesi Surgical BBI Healthcare Biovici Calon Cardio - Technology Cansford Laboratories Dacey Ltd T/A Orthotix GP Commissioning Solutions Great Bear Healthcare Invitron We Predict Williams Medical Supplies Frontier Medical Group Microsemi Trade Development Visit - Spain Au Vodka Daioni Organic Dawn Meats Evan-Evans Group Gower Brewery MTA Foods Peters Foodservice Snowdonia Cheese Company Mushroom Garden Ultrapharm 9BAR

Arab Health - Dubai, UAE DTR Medical Pelican Feminine Healthcare Cosmeditech Huntleigh EKF Diagnostics Rocialle College of Biomedical Sciences, Cardiff University Cloud Cair Mangar International Dr. Organic Totally Cool Frio UK Cansford Laboratories Quay Pharmaceuticals Frio Astrid Europe The Magstim Company The Sure Chill Company Trade Development Visit - Netherlands and Belgium Mushroom Garden Dawn Meats KK Fine Foods Thew Arnott Evan-Evans Group Halen Mon Calbee Wrexham Lager Sims Foods Plas Farm 9BAR Good Carb Food Co Trade Mission - Jeddah, Saudi Arabia NPTC Group of Colleges HCC Meat Promotion Wales Celtic English Academy Dunbia Trade Mission - Shanghai and Hong Kong, China Clogau Gold of Wales W2 Global Data Solutions Julia Brooker Paintings Conren Tiny Rebel i2L Research Timberkits Cascade Wealth Management Ensemble Cymru Vale Brothers (Thermatex) Flying Viper Illustration

Cardiff Metropolitan University Amnitec Wagtail UK Pelican Feminine Healthcare National Theatre of Wales KJ Services BBC National Orchestra of Wales Games Development Conference - San Francisco, USA Applingua Quantum Soup Studios Deceptive Games Vision Game Labs Talespinners S4C Tramshed Tech BLC (Wales) Ltd. t/a Big Learning Company Trade Mission - Dubai, UAE The British Rototherm Company Geo Smart Decisions Vessel Protection Solutions Teddington Engineered Solutions Wolfestone Reid Lifting Eurobond Laminates Zip Clip Surveys Gwalia Zip World TC Consult NPTC Group of Colleges Gulfood - Dubai, UAE MTA Foods Dairy Partners Ty Nant Spring Water Plas Farm HCC Meat Promotion Wales Fayrefield Foods Hilltop Honey Gower View Foods Brighter Foods Radnor Preserves Caws Cenarth Calon Wen Organic Dairy Produce Montgomery Spring Water LLanllyr Water Calon Wen Organic Dairy Produce

Easibake Foods Sims Foods Good Carb Food Co Bridgehead Food Partners Rachel’s Organics Daioni Organic Dunbia Burts Biscuits & Cakes Henllan Bakery Lewis Pies Trade Mission - New York, USA Pharma Group Cornelius Electronics Tiny Rebel SA Partners Properr Software Coup Media Galerie Simpson Dr Zigs Extraordinary Bubbles The Radical Tea Towel Company M T Jewellery Laura Thomas Jewellery AO Sublime Ltd T/A Olfi Surveys Gwalia

PPM Technology

3. The number of SMEs that attended each overseas trade event accompanied by the Welsh Government in 2016-17. Event

Location

Dates

# SMEs

Food & Hotel Asia Singapore 12-15 April 2016 1

Hannover Messe Hannover, Germany 24-27 April 2016 2

Trade Mission Kuwait, Qatar, UAE and Oman

7-24 May 2016 9


Norway and Denmark

23-27 May 2016 14

Trade Mission Toronto, Canada 12-17 June 2016 5

Trade Mission Mumbai, India 10-17 September 2016

7

Innotrans Berlin, Germany 20-23 September 2016

3



7

Trade Mission Osaka, Japan 8-15 October 2016 16

MRO Europe Amsterdam, Netherlands

13-15 October 2016 5

Trade Mission Tehran, Iran 15-21 October 2016 6

SIAL Paris, France 16-20 October 2016 12

Export Explorer Trade Mission


8


Abu Dhabi and UAE 5-11 November 2016 15

Ocean Energy Europe Brussels, Belgium 6-10 November 2016 8

MEDICA Dusseldorf, Germany 14-17 November 2016

35


Spain 15-17 November 2016

9

Arab Health Dubai, UAE 23-26 January 2017 11


Netherlands and Belgium

6-9 February 2017 9

Trade Mission Jeddah, Saudi Arabia 11-17 February 2017 1

Trade Mission Shanghai and Hong Kong, China

25 February - 4 March 2017

11



7


10


20

Trade Mission New York, USA 5-10 March 2017 14

4. The ratio of SMEs to non-SMEs that attended each overseas event accompanied and subsidised by the Welsh Government in 2016/17. Event

Location

Dates

% SMEs

Food & Hotel Asia Singapore 12-15 April 2016 50%

Hannover Messe Hannover, Germany 24-27 April 2016 100%

Trade Mission Kuwait, Qatar, UAE and Oman

7-24 May 2016 82%


Norway and Denmark 23-27 May 2016 93%

Trade Mission Toronto, Canada 12-17 June 2016 100%

Trade Mission Mumbai, India 10-17 September 2016 70%

Innotrans Berlin, Germany 20-23 September 2016 60%



88%

Trade Mission Osaka, Japan 8-15 October 2016 89%

MRO Europe Amsterdam, Netherlands

13-15 October 2016 83%

Trade Mission Tehran, Iran 15-21 October 2016 100%

SIAL Paris, France 16-20 October 2016 86%

Export Explorer Trade Mission


73%


Abu Dhabi and UAE 5-11 November 2016 71%

Ocean Energy Europe Brussels, Belgium 6-10 November 2016 89%

MEDICA Dusseldorf, Germany 14-17 November 2016 80%


Spain 15-17 November 2016 82%

Arab Health Dubai, UAE 23-26 January 2017 65%


Netherlands & Belgium 6-9 February 2017 75%

Trade Mission Jeddah, Saudi Arabia 11-17 February 2017 25%

Trade Mission Shanghai and Hong Kong, China

25 February - 4 March 2017

61%



88%


83%


80%

Trade Mission New York, USA 5-10 March 2017 100%

5. The number of companies subsidised by the Welsh Government that attended multiple overseas events alongside the Welsh Government in 2016/17. Please include the companies’ names. Of the 225 individual companies that attended overseas events alongside the Welsh Government in 2016/17, the following 59 companies attended more than one event. 9BAR Amnitec Bridgehead Food Partners Brighter Foods Burts Biscuits & Cakes Calbee Calon Wen Organic Dairy Produce Cansford Laboratories Celtic English Academy Cloud Cair Conren Cosmeditech Daioni Organic Dairy Partners Dawn Meats Dividers Folding Partitions Dr Zigs Extraordinary Bubbles DTR Medical Dunbia EKF Diagnostics Evan-Evans Group Frio Astrid Europe Frio UK Fulcrum Direct Geo Smart Decisions Global Tooling Solutions Good Carb Food Co Gower Brewery Halen Mon HCC Meat Promotion Wales i2L Research Llanllyr Water Manutech Europe MTA Foods Mushroom Garden NPTC Group of Colleges Otley Brewing Pelican Feminine Healthcare Plas Farm Purple Moose

Rachel’s Organics Reid Lifting Rocialle R-TECH Materials Sims Foods Snowdonia Cheese Company Surveys Gwalia Teddington Engineered Solutions The British Rototherm Company The Sure Chill Company Timberkits Tiny Rebel Tomoe Valve Totally Cool Ty Nant Spring Water Vessel Protection Solutions Wall Colmonoy Wrexham Lager

Wrexham Mineral Cables

atisn 11936 - welsh government · 2019-01-25 · foi/req/esnr/overseas events in 2016-17 (11936) 1....

Documents