Asked by: Martyn Day (Scottish National Party - Linlithgow and East Falkirk)
Question to the Department for International Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what estimate he has made of the level of foreign direct investment in Linlithgow and East Falkirk constituency as a result of expenditure by (a) his Department and (b) the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills in (i) 2013, (ii) 2014 and (iii) 2015.
Answered by Mark Garnier
The Department for International Trade (DIT) publishes figures at UK regional level. For Scotland, DIT recorded the following number of projects in each financial year 2013/14 – 2015/16.
Year | Number of Projects |
2015/16 | 108 |
2014/15 | 119 |
2013/14 | 122 |
Asked by: Martyn Day (Scottish National Party - Linlithgow and East Falkirk)
Question to the Department for International Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what assessment he has made of the value of exports from businesses in (a) Linlithgow and East Falkirk constituency, (b) Scotland and (c) the UK to other EU member states in each year since 2010.
Answered by Mark Garnier
Data on the value of exports from businesses in Linlithgow and East Falkirk are not available.
Data on the value of exports from Scotland are available from:
a) the Scottish Government (covering both goods and services)
http://www.gov.scot/Topics/Statistics/Browse/Economy/Exports/ESSPublication
b) HMRC’s Regional Trade Statistics (covering goods only)
https://www.uktradeinfo.com/Statistics/RTS/Pages/default.aspx
Data on the value of UK exports to other EU member states (covering both goods and services) are available from the ONS Pink Book (corrected data published on 13th February 2017): https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/nationalaccounts/balanceofpayments/adhocs/006656balanceofpaymentsannualgeographicaldatatables
The data from these sources are not directly comparable as they have been produced on a different basis.