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date	28/01/2015
answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept id	26
answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
hansard heading	Overseas Trade: Republic of Ireland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what the value was of UK (a) exports to and (b) imports from Ireland in each year from 1985 for which data is available.
tabling member constituency	Vale of Clwyd
tabling member printed	Chris Ruane
uin	222618
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/02/2015 answer text <p>Official (ONS) figures on UK trade in goods and services with Ireland are only available since 1999. These are shown in Table 1 below:</p><p> </p><p><strong>Table 1: UK Trade in Goods and Services with Ireland, 1999-2013</strong></p><p> </p><p>£ billion, current prices</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Exports</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Imports</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1999</p></td><td><p>13.4</p></td><td><p>11.2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2000</p></td><td><p>15.3</p></td><td><p>12.8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2001</p></td><td><p>17.6</p></td><td><p>14.7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2002</p></td><td><p>19.8</p></td><td><p>15.8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2003</p></td><td><p>17.7</p></td><td><p>12.9</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2004</p></td><td><p>19.8</p></td><td><p>13.5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2005</p></td><td><p>23.5</p></td><td><p>14.0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2006</p></td><td><p>24.4</p></td><td><p>14.3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2007</p></td><td><p>26.7</p></td><td><p>15.6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2008</p></td><td><p>28.7</p></td><td><p>16.9</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009</p></td><td><p>25.1</p></td><td><p>17.0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010</p></td><td><p>27.4</p></td><td><p>17.6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>28.9</p></td><td><p>17.6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>28.7</p></td><td><p>18.1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>26.7</p></td><td><p>17.5</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><em>Source: ONS Pink Book 2014 </em></p><p> </p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 09/02/2015 10:27:26 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
tabling member	534 label Biography information for Chris Ruane

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registered interest
date	20/10/2014
answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept id	26
answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
hansard heading	Overseas Trade: Republic of Ireland
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what is their estimate of the number of jobs in the Republic of Ireland associated with direct trade with the United Kingdom.
tabling member printed	Lord Browne of Belmont
uin	HL2176
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/10/2014 answer text <p>The most recent official figures available (calculated by the Irish government and estimating the figure at 198,000 jobs) are now 5 years old. We were unable to find an estimate more current than this.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>In this case, we consider that the time and the associated costs involved in generating an estimate of the number of jobs would be disproportionate to the outcome.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Figure calculated by Cambridge Econometrics analysis based on Trade in Value-Added (TiVA) data. Source : British – Irish Relations - <a href="http://www.taoiseach.gov.ie/eng/Publications/Publications_2013/Joint_Economic_Study_Vol1.pdf" target="_blank">Joint Economic Study</a> 2013 Vol.1 Evaluating the value of the economic relationship between the United Kingdom and Ireland (PA Consulting Group).</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Livingston of Parkhead question first answered 30/10/2014 15:42:03 answering member 4278 label Biography information for Lord Livingston of Parkhead
tabling member	3801 label Biography information for Lord Browne of Belmont