Trade: Barbados

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform what the value was of (a) imports and (b) exports of (i) goods and (ii) services between Barbados and the United Kingdom in each of the last 10 years for which information is available. (161081)

The information is as follows.

(i) Overseas Trade Statistics recorded data for UK trade in goods with Barbados are shown in the following table:

*£ million*
	UK imports of goods from Barbados	UK exports of goods to Barbados
1997	30.9	37.2
1998	28.3	42.5
1999	21.5	43.4
2000	24.5	51.2
2001	40.2	55.7
2002	25.0	39.6
2003	20.9	52.3
2004	20.0	42.2
2005	23.0	55.6
2006	19.9	47.0

(ii) Data on trade in services are not available for the full 10 years requested. table 9.13 of the UK Balance of Payments “Pink Book 2007” gives the following figures for UK trade in services with Barbados:

*£ million*
	UK imports of services from Barbados	UK exports of services to Barbados
2005	695	53
2006	832	55

Volume 465: debated on Thursday 25 October 2007