Defence: Exports

(asked on 16th May 2023) - View Source

Question to the Department for Business and Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what the total value of UK defence exports in actual prices was in (a) 2018, (b) 2019, (c) 2020, (d) 2021 and (e) 2022.


Answered by
Nigel Huddleston Portrait
Nigel Huddleston
Financial Secretary (HM Treasury)
This question was answered on 22nd May 2023

The defence and security export statistics are published annually on GOV.UK.

To the questions:

185377: what proportion of the global defence export market the UK accounted for in
(a) 2018, (b) 2019, (c) 2020, (d) 2021 and (e) 2022.

a) 19% b) 16% c) 6% d) 7% e) Not available (Source Official Stats 2018-2021)

185378: what the total value of UK defence exports in actual prices was in
(a) 2018, (b) 2019, (c) 2020, (d) 2021 and (e) 2022.

a) £14bn b) £11bn c) £7.52 bn d) £6.64bn e) Not available (Source Official Stats 2018-2021)

The value of UK defence exports are based on orders received, and are not the value of actual exports.

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