Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much and what proportion of goods exports were made by businesses with a headcount of (a) 250 or more, (b) between 50 and 249, (c) between 10 and 49 and (d) less than 10 employees in each of the last 10 years.

HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) is responsible for the collection and publication of data on imports and exports of goods to and from the UK. HMRC releases this information monthly, as a National Statistic called the Overseas Trade in Goods Statistics (OTS), which is available via their dedicated website (www.uktradeinfo.com). From this website, it is possible to build your own data tables based upon bespoke search criteria, and download bulk datasets.

Data on UK exports by business characteristics, including number of employees, from 2013 to 2020 is available from the following webpage: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/uk-trade-in-goods-statistics-by-business-characteristics

This information is not available prior to 2013. The information for 2021 will be published in December 2022.