Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much (a) rough wood, (b) sowing seeds, (c) instructional models, (d) cheese and (e) scrap aluminium the UK has imported from Norfolk Island in the last five years.

We have no record of any of the goods in question being imported into the UK from Norfolk Island in the last five years.

HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) is responsible for the collection and publication of data on imports and exports of goods to and from the UK. HMRC releases this information monthly, as a National Statistic called the Overseas Trade in Goods Statistics (OTS), which is available via their dedicated website (www.uktradeinfo.com). From this website, it is possible to build your own data tables based upon bespoke search criteria.

Classification codes (according to the Harmonised System) are available to assist you in accessing published trade statistics data in the UK Global Tariff. Goods moving to and from the UK are identified by an eight-digit commodity code. These are publicly available from the UK Trade Tariff at www.gov.uk/trade-tariff.