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<p>The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics
Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><em><strong>Letter
from John Pullinger CB, National Statistician, to The Lord Kennedy of Southwark, dated
17 May 2018.</strong></em></p><p> </p><p><em></em></p><p>Dear Lord Kennedy,</p><p>
</p><p>As National Statistician and Chief Executive of the UK Statistics Authority,
I am responding to your Parliamentary Question asking what the breakdown is, by sector,
in the latest overseas trade export figures to the end of March 2018 <strong>(HL7744).</strong></p><p>
</p><p>The Office for National Statistics (ONS) trade statistics are currently produced
on a product basis and not by industry sector. However, we are engaged in a wide development
of UK trade statistics and are working towards producing our trade statistics by industry
sector for the latter end of 2018. Further details can be found in our published trade
development plan.<sup><sup>[1]</sup></sup></p><p> </p><p>You can find data on trade
in goods and services in the <a href="https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/nationalaccounts/balanceofpayments/datasets/3tradeinservicesthepinkbook2016"
target="_blank"><em>Quarterly Balance of Payments</em> release. </a>This data is broken
down by service type and by goods commodity group. The latest data available is from
2017, and 2018 Quarter 1 data will be released on 29 June 2018. You can find the data
on the ONS website[2], Table E for goods and Table F for services.</p><p> </p><p>In
addition, we produce trade in goods further detail on a quarterly basis by <a href="https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/nationalaccounts/balanceofpayments/datasets/publicationtablesuktradecpa08"
target="_blank"><em>Classification of Product by Activity</em></a>, the latest data
for which covers 2017 Quarter 4. This data can be accessed on the ONS website[3];
in Table 1 for total exports, Table 3 for EU exports and Table 5 for non-EU exports:</p><p>
</p><p>You may also wish to note the latest export figures at an aggregate level via
the UK Trade statistical bulletin[4] and corresponding publication[5].</p><p> </p><p>
</p><p>Yours sincerely,</p><p><strong>John Pullinger </strong></p><p> </p><p> </p><p>[1]https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/nationalaccounts/balanceofpayments/articles/uktradedevelopmentplan/2017</p><p>[2]https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/nationalaccounts/balanceofpayments/datasets/balanceofpaymentsstatisticalbulletintables</p><p>[3]https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/nationalaccounts/balanceofpayments/datasets/publicationtablesuktradecpa08</p><p>[4]https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/nationalaccounts/balanceofpayments/bulletins/uktrade/march2018</p><p>[5]https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/nationalaccounts/balanceofpayments/bulletins/uktrade/march2018/relateddata.</p><p>
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