Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate she has made of the total value of fish (a) imports and (b) exports to and from (i) other countries inside and (ii) outside the EU in each of the last 10 years.
The information requested on the total value of trade in fish and fish products (excluding fish oils, fish flour and meals) taken from the information collected by HM Revenue and Customs is given in the table below, for the ten years of 2006 to 2015 inclusive. Comparable data for trade in 2016 is not yet available.
Value of UK trade in fish and fish products (£million - exc. Fish oils and fish flour and meals)
| Imports into the UK From: | Exports from the UK to: | ||||
| EU | Non-EU | Total imports | EU | Non-EU | Total exports |
2006 | 556.1 | 1365.5 | 1921.6 | 790.9 | 153.0 | 943.9 |
2007 | 621.7 | 1372.2 | 1993.9 | 805.8 | 176.3 | 982.0 |
2008 | 665.4 | 1544.6 | 2210.1 | 824.8 | 184.7 | 1009.4 |
2009 | 644.5 | 1532.7 | 2177.2 | 899.6 | 266.5 | 1166.1 |
2010 | 699.0 | 1555.7 | 2254.7 | 1010.8 | 335.0 | 1345.7 |
2011 | 802.9 | 1755.7 | 2558.6 | 1054.6 | 409.4 | 1463.9 |
2012 | 799.0 | 1771.0 | 2570.0 | 937.4 | 406.5 | 1343.9 |
2013 | 848.8 | 1908.2 | 2757.0 | 972.1 | 488.2 | 1460.3 |
2014 | 849.1 | 1888.7 | 2737.8 | 1014.2 | 552.0 | 1566.3 |
2015 | 842.6 | 1830.4 | 2673.0 | 921.1 | 416.3 | 1337.3 |