Exports

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office what the monetary value of goods and services exported from (a) Scotland and (b) the UK was in each of the last five years for which figures are available. (319951)

I have been asked to reply.

The figures in the following table for exports of goods have been taken from HM Revenue and Customs Regional Trade Statistics.

*£ billion*
	UK	Scotland
2004	190.5	11.9
2005	211.8	12.7
2006	243.8	13.5
2007	219.9	13.7
2008	248.8	14.3

Office for National Statistics (ONS) data for UK exports of services for the same years are shown in the following table on a Balance of Payments basis.

	UK (£ billion)
2004	112.9
2005	119.2
2006	134.2
2007	150.6
2008	170.8

The ONS does not produce comparable services trade statistics for countries and regions of the UK; the Scottish Executive publishes some data as part of their Global Connections Survey, available from:

http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Statistics/Browse/Economy/Exports

Volume 506: debated on Thursday 4 March 2010