Speeches

Baroness Burt of Solihull – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Baroness Burt of Solihull on 2016-02-10.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the proportion of exports that will be sold to other EU member states by 2020.

Lord Maude of Horsham

The government does not breakdown 2020 export forecasts geographically.

However, the independent Office for Budget Responsibility does publish UK total export forecasts up to 2020, with the most recent publication being in the November 2015 Economic and Fiscal Outlook:

Exports

Imports

2016

533.6

556.8

2017

557.4

581.4

2018

585.4

609.5

2019

616.3

639.0

2020

648.0

669.7

Source: November 2015 Economic and fiscal outlook