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Written question asked by Baroness Byford (Conservative) on Monday, 5 November 2018, in the House of Lords. It was due for an answer on Monday, 19 November 2018. It was answered by Lord Gardiner of Kimble (Conservative) on Monday, 12 November 2018 on behalf of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.


Food: Imports

Question

To ask Her Majesty's Government what proportion of the UK total food import expenditure is made up of items (1) finished in the EU, and (2) part-finished in the EU, which could be finished in the UK.

Answer


Defra does not hold the statistics required to answer this question. Overseas trade commodity data collected by HMRC does not include any details of where products are manufactured, or of any intermediate manufacturing processes.



Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
HL11233
Session
2017-19
Subjects
Food Imports UK trade with EU
Contains statistics
Yes
Link
View this Written question on www.parliament.uk