Trade: Madagascar

To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform what the monetary value of trade between the UK and Madagascar was in each of the last five years. (233970)

Data on recorded trade in goods with Madagascar are shown in the following table:

*£ million*
	UK exports of goods to Madagascar	UK imports of goods from Madagascar
2003	16.6	6.0
2004	15.5	9.3
2005	15.5	6.6
2006	25.8	4.2
2007	32.2	7.2
Source: HMRC Overseas Trade Statistics

Estimates of trade in services are not available for the full five years. ONS data published in the UK Balance of Payments Pink Book 2008 were:

*£ million*
	UK exports of services to Madagascar	UK imports of services from Madagascar
2006	10	7
2007	16	10

Volume 482: debated on Tuesday 11 November 2008