§ Mr. Alan SimpsonTo ask the President of the Board of Trade if she will list in order the 10 United Kingdom exporters who exported most by value, and their combined percentage of total United Kingdom exports, in the last available year. [40627]
§ Mrs. RocheInformation on exports by individual firms is not available from official sources. Results for 1996 from the Financial Times FT Exporters are given in the table. The FT figures are not comparable with the official figures for total exports; consequently, the Top 10 companies' share of the UK total is not available.
£ million 1 British Aerospace 5,248 2 BP 4,483 3 Rover Group 4,005 4 Shell UK 3,357 5 IBM UK 3,069 6 British Steel 2,722 7 Ford Motor Company 2,611 8 Rolls-Royce 2,512 9 Motorola 2,208 10 Zeneca 2,076 Total of Top 10 32,291 Source:
The Financial Times FT Exporters