Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask His Majesty's Government what is the value of UK direct imports and exports to Ethiopia.

The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority.

A response to the noble Lord Bishop’s Parliamentary Question of 30 January is attached.

Professor Sir Ian Diamond | National Statistician

The Lord Bishop of St Albans

House of Lords

London

SW1A 0PW

1 February 2023

Dear Lord Bishop,

As National Statistician and Chief Executive of the UK Statistics Authority, I am responding to your Parliamentary Questions asking the value of UK direct imports and exports to Ethiopia; the value of UK direct imports and exports to Sudan; and the value of UK direct imports and exports to Eritrea (HL5226; HL5227; HL5228).

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) publish UK trade data at country level in our UK total trade, all countries release[1] .

Data on UK trade with Ethiopia, Sudan and Eritrea for 2016-2021 can be found in Table 1, Table 2, and Table 3 respectively.

Yours sincerely,

Professor Sir Ian Diamond

[1] https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/nationalaccounts/balanceofpayments/datasets/uktotaltradeallcountri esseasonallyadjusted