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Economy: Balance of Payments

Original answer

The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the authority to reply. Letter from Stephen Penneck, Director General for ONS, to Lord Pearson of Rannoch, dated July 2011. As Director General for the Office for National Statistics, I have been asked to reply to your Parliamentary Question To ask Her Majesty's Government when they expect the United Kingdom Balance of Payments 2010 to be published; and whether it will reflect exports and imports of goods and services which pass through Rotterdam and Antwerp. (HL11163) The United Kingdom Balance of Payments 2010 (including data for 2009) was published in 2010. It can be found at the following web link: http://www.statistics. gov.uk/STATBASE/Product.asp?vInk=1140. The United Kingdom Balance of Payments 2011 (including data for 2010) is to be published electronically on 1 November 2011. The convention for recording exports and imports of goods and services (e.g. on HMRC customs declarations) is that the partner country recorded is the country the goods or services first enter after leaving their country of origin. Therefore, exports or imports that pass through Rotterdam and Antwerp would be recorded as exports to or imports from Netherlands and Belgium respectively.

It has since been corrected.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

11163; 729 c229-30WA

Session

2010-12

Related items

Correction to Lords Written Answer
Tuesday, 6 September 2011
Written statements
House of Lords

Notes

Answer corrected on 6 September 2011 at 730 c19-20WS.

Subjects

Exports Imports Netherlands Belgium Balance of payments

Link

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