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Written question asked by John Stanley (Conservative) on Monday, 9 March 2015, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Monday, 16 March 2015 (named day). It was answered by Matt Hancock (Conservative) on Monday, 16 March 2015 on behalf of the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills.


Arms Trade: Exports

Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what the value of arms exports from the UK was in each of the last five years for which figures are available.

Answer

The latest UK Defence export figures were published as official statistics on 8 July 2014. A link to the full dataset is below:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/uk-defence-and-security-export-figures-2013

An extract from the figures is below showing the value of UK Defence Exports (Based on orders) over the last 5 years.

Year

£BN

2009

7.3

2010

5.8

2011

5.4

2012

8.8

2013

9.8

Total

37.1


Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
226813
Session
2014-15
Subjects
Arms trade Exports
Contains statistics
Yes
Link
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