Question to the Department for International Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, how many (a) services exporters and (b) services importers there were in each region of England in (i) 2021 and (ii) 2022; and what percentage of businesses located in each of those regions were (a) services exporters and (b) services importers in those years.

Data on the number of businesses exporting and importing services for each region of England are published by the Office for National Statistics. The latest data available is for 2020 and can be found at: https://www.ons.gov.uk/businessindustryandtrade/business/businessservices/datasets/annualbusinesssurveyimportersandexportersregionalbreakdown

Data for the percentage of businesses in each region is not available.