\u200bThe information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.<\/p>
<\/strong><\/p> Letter from John Pullinger CB, National Statistician, to The Lord Kennedy of Southwark, dated 17 May 2018.<\/strong><\/em><\/p> <\/p> <\/em><\/p> Dear Lord Kennedy,<\/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 (HL7744).<\/strong><\/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.[1]<\/sup><\/sup><\/p> <\/p> You can find data on trade in goods and services in the 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>