Uzbekistan: Overseas Trade

To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform what the volume of trade between the UK and Uzbekistan was in (a) 2007 and (b) 2008. (265467)

HMRC Overseas Trade Statistics data on recorded trade in goods with Uzbekistan are shown in the following table:

*£ million*
	UK exports of goods to Uzbekistan	UK imports of goods from Uzbekistan
2007	37	42
2008	27	29

ONS data published in the UK Balance of Payments Pink Book 2008 were:

*£ million*
	UK exports of services to Uzbekistan	UK imports of services from Uzbekistan
2007	16	11

Geographical estimates of trade in services in 2008 are likely to be published on 31 July.

Volume 490: debated on Monday 23 March 2009