HC Deb 13 November 2003 vol 413 cc398-9W
Mr. Gordon Prentice

To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry how many litres of champagne were imported from France in each year since 1992. [138102]

Mr. Mike O'Brien

Data on UK imports of champagne are given in the table.

UK Imports of champagne from France
1992 11,097,820
1993 14,327,108
1994 17,805,364
1995 14,029,225
1996 15,633,002
1997 16,361,152
1998 18,145,100
1999 24,201,937
2000 14,386,442
2001 17,245,344
2002 24,398,314

Note:

Champagne is defined as code 22041011 of the harmonised commodity coding system.

Source:

HM Customs and Excise data