Imports: Occupied Territories

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many consignments of goods entered the UK from the occupied Palestinian territory in each of the last three years. (229929)

The number of consignments entering the UK in each of the years since the implementation on 1 February 2005 of the technical arrangement, are as follows:

	Number
1 February 2005 to 31 January 2006	3,386
1 February 2006 to 31 January 2007	2,831
1 February 2007 to 31 January 2008	2,445

Volume 481: debated on Tuesday 28 October 2008