Question

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.

Official (ONS) figures on UK trade in goods and services with Ireland are only available since 1999. These are shown in Table 1 below:

Table 1: UK Trade in Goods and Services with Ireland, 1999-2013

£ billion, current prices

Source: ONS Pink Book 2014