Food: Imports

(asked on 11th January 2018) - View Source

Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what proportion of food consumed in the UK was imported from the EU in (1) 1990, (2) 1995, (3) 2000, (4) 2005, (5) 2010, (6) 2015, and (7) 2017.


This question was answered on 23rd January 2018

The proportion of food consumed that was imported from the EU is shown in the table below. Data is not yet available for 2017. The latest figures are for 2016.

Origins of domestic consumption 1990 – 2016

1990

1995

2000

2005

2010

2015

2016

UK

66%

62%

56%

51%

51%

52%

49%

EU (a)

18%

21%

23%

28%

28%

29%

30%

  1. Membership of the EU increased between 2002 and 2013, from 15 to 28 countries.


A full time series of data from 1988 and for all world regions is available in the Agriculture section of the UK Chapter 14 data set on the GOV.UK website.

Note that the origins of domestic consumption figures are not the same as the production to supply ratio (sometimes referred to as self-sufficiency). In 2016 the UK production to supply ratio for all food was 60%.

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