Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask His Majesty's Government what is the value of UK direct imports and exports to Eritrea.
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