The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority. I have therefore asked the Authority to respond.
Dear Lord Risby,
As National Statistician and Chief Executive of the UK Statistics Authority, I am responding to your Parliamentary Questions asking about imports and exports between the UK and South Africa, and the UK and India, in each of the last five years (HL7881; HL7882).
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) publishes data on goods and services exports for the UK with South Africa and India[1], which can be found in table 1 below. Please note that data are in current prices and, as such, include the effect of inflation. We do not have total trade data, split by country, on a volume basis (with the effect of inflation removed) at present.
Table 1: UK total trade (goods and services) with South Africa and India, in £ million, non-seasonally adjusted
| 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | |
South Africa | Exports | 4853 | 4558 | 4686 | 4570 | 4487 | 4758 |
Imports | 3344 | 3896 | 4161 | 4192 | 5036 | 6270 | |
India | Exports | 7872 | 6909 | 5771 | 6630 | 9226 | 7958 |
Imports | 11225 | 9555 | 10076 | 12052 | 12654 | 16171 |
Source: ONS
Yours sincerely,
Professor Sir Ian Diamond
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