Asked by: Baroness McIntosh of Pickering (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask His Majesty's Government what the role of the Emergency Planning College is in assessing risks to critical infrastructure.
Answered by Baroness Anderson of Stoke-on-Trent - Baroness in Waiting (HM Household) (Whip)
The primary focus of the Emergency Planning College (EPC) is to build resilience through training and exercising. It helps organisations to build capabilities to manage emergency and crises situations. All learning material is regularly reviewed to ensure alignment with the latest government direction, policy and legislation. The EPC does not have a role in assessing risks to Critical National Infrastructure (CNI) but uses the National Risk Register (NRR) in the development of its training materials and courses.The NRR is the external version of the government’s internal, classified National Security Risk Assessment. All risks in the NRR, including those related to CNI, are kept under review to ensure that they are the most appropriate scenarios to inform emergency preparedness and resilience activity.
The UK Resilience Academy (UKRA) will be established in April 2025 to ensure that all those who work on resilience have the capability, knowledge and skills they need to play their part in making resilience a ‘whole of society’ endeavour.
Asked by: Baroness McIntosh of Pickering (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask His Majesty's Government when they last assessed the risks to UK critical infrastructure, and what steps they took as a result of that assessment.
Answered by Baroness Anderson of Stoke-on-Trent - Baroness in Waiting (HM Household) (Whip)
The UK Government uses a Lead Government Department model for the oversight of Critical National Infrastructure security and resilience policy. Each Lead Government Department is responsible for routinely undertaking risk assessments for their sector, including assessing Critical National Infrastructure risks within the internal, classified National Security Risk Assessment.
The National Risk Register is the external version of the National Security Risk Assessment. It was most recently updated in January. All risks in the National Risk Register, including those related to Critical National Infrastructure, are kept under review to ensure that they are the most appropriate scenarios to inform emergency preparedness and resilience activity. A number of risks will be subject to reassessment over the next few months. An updated risk will be subsequently published to reflect these changes.
Policy interventions, to address Critical National Infrastructure risks, are sector specific and led by the relevant Lead Government Department.
Asked by: Baroness McIntosh of Pickering (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask His Majesty's Government what are the trade data for (1) exports, and (2) imports, with (a) the United States of America, (b) the EU, and (c) European countries including those outside of the EU, in each of the last three years.
Answered by Baroness Anderson of Stoke-on-Trent - Baroness in Waiting (HM Household) (Whip)
The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority.
Please see the letter attached from the National Statistician and Chief Executive of the UK Statistics Authority.
Professor Sir Ian Diamond | National Statistician
The Baroness McIntosh of Pickering
House of Lords
London
SW1A 0PW
11 March 2025
Dear Lady McIntosh of Pickering,
As National Statistician and Chief Executive of the UK Statistics Authority, I am responding to your Parliamentary Question asking what are the trade data on (1) exports, and (2) imports, with (a) the United States of America, (b) the EU, and (c) European countries including those outside of the EU, in each of the last three years (HL5557).
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) publish UK trade data at country level in our UK total trade, all countries release[1] which is published on a quarterly basis. These data are available up to Quarter 3 (July to Sept) 2024. The latest full year of data available is 2023.
Data on UK trade with the United States, the European Union and Europe can be found in Tables 1, 2 and 3 respectively. Please note that all data are in current prices and, as such, include the effect of inflation.
Yours sincerely,
Professor Sir Ian Diamond
Table 1: UK total trade, trade in goods and trade in services with the United States, exports and imports, 2021-2023[2].
£ billion, current prices
Year | Total Trade | Trade in Goods | Trade in Services | |||
| Exports | Imports | Exports | Imports | Exports | Imports |
2021 | 142.3 | 80.2 | 49.7 | 39.2 | 92.6 | 41.0 |
2022 | 176.5 | 113.5 | 60.0 | 61.9 | 116.5 | 51.7 |
2023 | 179.4 | 112.1 | 60.4 | 57.9 | 118.9 | 54.2 |
Source: Office for National Statistics
Table 2: UK total trade, trade in goods and trade in services with the European Union, exports and imports, 2021-20232.
£ billion, current prices
Year | Total Trade | Trade in Goods | Trade in Services | |||
| Exports | Imports | Exports | Imports | Exports | Imports |
2021 | 276.9 | 313.1 | 158.4 | 237.4 | 118.5 | 75.6 |
2022 | 352.2 | 419.7 | 207.1 | 306.6 | 145.1 | 113.1 |
2023 | 348.0 | 446.6 | 186.8 | 318.2 | 161.2 | 128.4 |
Source: Office for National Statistics
Table 3: UK total trade, trade in goods and trade in services with Europe, exports and imports, 2021-20232,[3].
£ billion, current prices
Year | Total Trade | Trade in Goods | Trade in Services | |||
| Exports | Imports | Exports | Imports | Exports | Imports |
2021 | 333.4 | 393.7 | 184.7 | 298.5 | 148.6 | 95.2 |
2022 | 422.2 | 520.1 | 241.8 | 382.1 | 180.5 | 138.0 |
2023 | 415.5 | 525.0 | 215.2 | 368.1 | 200.3 | 156.9 |
Source: Office for National Statistics
[2]Data may not sum due to rounding.
[3]These data include all countries in Europe as set out in Appendix 5 of the Balance of Payments (BoP) Vademecum: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/documents/39118/18471074/vademecum-balance-payment-november-2023-january-2024.pdf. This total includes European Union countries.
Asked by: Baroness McIntosh of Pickering (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask His Majesty's Government how many times have the specialised committees created by the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement met, and how many of these meetings have been attended by ministers.
Answered by Baroness Anderson of Stoke-on-Trent - Baroness in Waiting (HM Household) (Whip)
Under the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement there are 19 Specialised Committees. These are co-chaired by a UK and EU senior official, and have met 67 times since 2021. The Specialised Committees report into the Partnership Council, which is the ministerial body set up by the TCA. It has met three times since 2021 and is currently chaired by Minster for the Cabinet Office Nick Thomas-Symonds and Commissioner Maroš Šefčovič. Further information is provided on GOV.UK.