William Cash (Stone, Conservative)
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills what estimate he has made of the value of Germany's (a) most recent structural surplus in its trade with the UK and (b) structural surplus over each of the last five years.

Michael Fallon (Sevenoaks, Conservative)
The balance of trade (goods and services) between the UK and Germany is publicly available in the Office for National Statistics (ONS) “Pink Book 2012” publication.

More timely data for goods only is available via the time series tool on the ONS website at:
http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/datasets-and-tables/data-selector.html?cdid=ENYW&dataset=mret&table-id=F2

and shows the UK balance of trade with Germany is -£5,846 million in Quarter 3 2012.