Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if his Department will publish data on the UK’s balance of trade with defence equipment with (a) the Americas, (b) Europe, (c) the Near/Middle East, (d) Africa and (e) Asia.

On a rolling 10-year basis, the UK remains the second largest global defence exporter and in 2018, the UK won defence orders worth £14 billion. The Department of International Trade, Defence & Security Exports publishes annually on GOV.UK, those defence and security export statistics that relate to sales to overseas ministries of defence and associated armed services.

Over the same 10-year period, open source data published by the Department for International Trade on GOV.UK indicates that the UK was the 12th biggest defence importer but the Government does not collect official data on the import of defence equipment by global region.