To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what the contribution of agriculture to the national GDP was in each of the past 10 years (a) in total, (b) by region, and (c) by farm type. [104910]
[holding answer 25 March 2003]: The information is currently available only at the total level; this is given in the following table:
| (a) UK Agriculture percentage contribution to total economy Gross Value Added (Current prices) | |
| Percentage | |
| 1993 | 1.6 |
| 1994 | 1.5 |
| 1995 | 1 |
| 1996 | 1 |
| 1997 | 1 |
| 1998 | 1 |
| 1999 | 0 |
| 2000 | 0 |
| 2001 | 0 |
| 2002 (provisional) | 0 |
(b) Regional gross value added estimates were withdrawn by the Office for National Statistics in December 2002 following the discovery of errors in the Annual Business Inquiry data. Revised estimates are due to be released later in the spring.
(c) The information is not available by farm type.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what quantity of food products, in real market value, were (a) exported from and (b) imported to the UK in each of the past 10 years. [104912]
[holding answer 25 March 2003]: The following table shows the value of UK trade (exports/imports) of food, feed and drink products, in real market value (at 2002 prices) for 1993 to 2002.
| £ billion | |||
| Exports | Imports | Trade Gap | |
| 1993 | 10.2 | 17.2 | -7.0 |
| 1994 | 11.1 | 18.1 | -7.1 |
| 1995 | 11.9 | 19.3 | -7.4 |
| 1996 | 11.6 | 20.5 | -8.9 |
| 1997 | 11.2 | 19.3 | -8.1 |
| 1998 | 10.0 | 18.4 | -8.5 |
| 1999 | 9.5 | 18.3 | -8.9 |
| Percentage | ||||||||
| Beef and Veal | Mutton and Lamb | Liquid milk | Butter | Cheese | Cream | Condensed milk | Skimmed milk powder | |
| 1993 | 100 | 116 | 100 | 71 | 72 | 136 | 127 | 148 |
| 1994 | 112 | 111 | 100 | 69 | 69 | 142 | 125 | 152 |
| 1995 | 114 | 110 | 100 | 69 | 70 | 136 | 141 | 157 |
| 1996 | 89 | 102 | 100 | 68 | 68 | 147 | 130 | 107 |
| 1997 | 77 | 97 | 100 | 79 | 67 | 144 | 130 | 141 |
| 1998 | 83 | 101 | 100 | 78 | 64 | 151 | 136 | 127 |
| 1999 | 80 | 104 | 100 | 71 | 63 | 146 | 127 | 180 |
| 2000 | 79 | 100 | 100 | 64 | 63 | 137 | 111 | -527 |
| 2001 | 72 | 78 | 100 | 63 | 66 | 134 | 105 | 111 |
| 2002 | 72 | 84 | 100 | 69 | 68 | 148 | 114 | 117 |
Note:
Consumption includes products placed in store and therefore products released from the store count as negative consumption. The exceptional figure shown for Skimmed Milk Powder in 2000 resulted from high levels of stocks moving out of intervention for export.