William Cash (Stone, Conservative): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills what the value was of UK exports (a) within and (b) without the EU in each of the last 12 years.
Michael Fallon (Sevenoaks, Conservative)
The value of UK goods exports within the EU and outside the EU since 1998 can be found on the Office for National Statistics website at
http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/datasets-and-tables/data-selector.html?dataset=mret
Data for goods and services exports can also be found in the Pink Book time series at
http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/datasets-and-tables/data-selector.html?dataset=pb
The latest data (2011 data from the Pink Book 2012 table 9.3) shows that the UK exported £493 billion of goods and services, of which £234 billion was to the EU-27 and the remaining £259 billion to outside the EU-27. 2012 data is planned for release in July 2013.
