UK’s exports of services are up by 25% – “despite Brexit”

And the EU’s share plunges from one-half to one-third in under five years

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A two-part Facts4EU report on the success of the UK’s services sector since leaving the EU

This Easter Monday Brexit Facts4EU.Org analyses the latest positive figures from the Office for National Statistics in relation to the all-important services sector. We are publishing this together with CIBUK.Org of which we are an Affiliated Organisation.

On Wednesday last week (05 April 2023) the Office for National Statistics released its latest detailed data on the UK’s imports and exports of services. This matters, as the services sector represents 80% of the UK economy. The figures show an astonishing 25% surge in the UK’s exports of services since the British people voted to leave the EU.

In this two-part report we summarise our analysis of the official data and comment on the findings.

The UK’s strength in services

Part One – 25% growth in services exports, declining importance of EU market (This report)
Part Two – The UK’s most popular services internationally

Nearly 2/3rds of UK’s exports of services go outside the EU

This Easter Monday we are able to bring readers the breakdown of exports of services from the United Kingdom, comparing EU with non-EU countries.

When it comes to services, the European Union accounts for only just over one-third of the UK’s total sales. The rest of the world is not only a more important market, but it is growing much faster than the EU.

Brexit Facts4EU.Org Summary

EU and non-EU exports of services, ONS 05 Apr 2023, data for 2021

(Detailed figures for services always lag well behind those for the import and export of goods, so these are the latest numbers.)

Exports to EU27 countries : £117.5bn (35.8%)
Exports to rest of the world : £210.6bn (64.2%)
In 2018 the EU accounted for 49.5% of the UK’s services exports

[Source : Office for National Statistics, published 05 Apr 2023, current prices.]

The UK’s success in exporting services has increased since Brexit

It is a sad fact that Rejoiners and those in the media who are anti-Brexit have allowed a myth to propagate that the UK’s exports have slumped since Brexit. This is emphatically not the case. Facts4EU.Org has published the official data on the export of goods several times, proving this.

The UK’s Rejoiners and ‘Globalists’ have received over £3.5m in foreign funding

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Below we show how Brexit Britain’s exports of services have grown in real terms by almost 25% since the pre-Referendum year of 2015. Firstly we present the views of the Rt Hon Sir John Redwood MP.

Commenting exclusively on our report, the Rt Hon Sir John Redwood MP told us :-

"Once again Facts4EU tells us the truths about our trading the establishment media wishes to hide. The UK is a big exporter of services.
"Last year saw great growth in our service exports. All the time we were in the EEC/EU they kept barriers to service trade and did not negotiate free trade for services in their international trade Agreements to help us. Out of the EU our service exports to the rest of the world are booming. UK trade deals will include freedoms to help our service exporters.
"The UK now has a global policy to extend our reach to the fast growing parts of the world like Asia who want our services."
- The Rt Hon Sir John Redwood MP, former Secretary of State, 10 Apr 2023

Brexit Facts4EU.Org Summary

Exports of services in real terms (allowing for inflation), 2015-2022

(Chained volume measure)

2015 : £275.4bn
2022 : £347.7bn (+24.8%, in real terms)

[Source : Office for National Statistics, published 05 Apr 2023, CVM.]

The value of services exports (in real terms) is back above its pre-Covid levels

It is a simple fact that the United Kingdom is the second-largest exporter of services in the world, after the United States. It is also a fact that the UK is exporting a much higher value of services to the world than ever before.

And finally it is a fact that the EU represents a shrinking market in its importance for UK exporters, as the growth is coming from the rest of the world.

Observations

Our Easter Monday report shows that not only is the EU a relatively small market for the UK’s greatest strength – services – but in addition Brexit Britain’s exports of services have surged since the Referendum.

Once again we must ask the Rejoin campaigns to look hard at their rhetoric and at the official facts we present. The two are incompatible. Either the official facts are wrong, or they are. We politely suggest the latter is the case.

In Part Two we will look at which services the UK is most successful at exporting.

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Reader Comments 19

1. Sparky , Monday, April 10, 2023, 06:32:

Selective data.
What the graph above shows is continued growth in services since 2015, a dip in 2019 then a significant drop due to Covid and finally current levels roughly at the same level as 2019.

2. Sparky , Monday, April 10, 2023, 06:45:

Interesting that on the 25 Anniversary of the signing of the Good Friday Agreement its not a feature today.
The Windsor Framework provides joint sovereignty of Northern Ireland for a time but moves unification of Ireland a step closer and will be a tangible cost of Brexit resulting in the UK becoming GB.
The signing of the Maastricht Treaty and the single market removed borders across Europe, this diffused the push for a United Ireland and made the Good Friday agreement possible.
Brexit hardly considered Northern Ireland
Farage was blinkered by his hatred for the EU and even had the front to suggested the RoI should leave the EU.
The Cons were blinkered by the threat of UKIP and decided to hold the referendum to defend against UKIP
Johnson agreed to the WA to get Brexit done but had no intention of keeping to the agreement, lied about the outcome and did not understand what he was agreeing to.

3. RW52 , Monday, April 10, 2023, 07:57:

Sparky...Go back to the EU, you are embarrassing yourself.

4. Paul j , Monday, April 10, 2023, 08:31:

A resident troll is now pushing the threat of a united ireland, lol.
The Irish Times has just do a interesting piece about whether there will be a united ireland in the next 25 years and they say no chance!
Our troll has completely run out of talking points and is getting desperate.

5. Gazzablack , Monday, April 10, 2023, 10:18:

Our resident troll, Sparky Macsparkface, purveyor of half truths and misrepresentations.
Still subtly trying to assign credit for the GFA to the EU.
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Sorry Dimspark, but the UK and Ireland have shared a 'common travel area' since 1922.
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Common travel area rights can only be exercised by citizens of Ireland and the UK.
There are no routine passport controls in operation for Irish and UK citizens travelling between the two countries.
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It was ex Irish Ambassador and participant in the GFA negotiations, Ray Bassett, that called for the ROI to leave the EU.

6. Gazzablack , Monday, April 10, 2023, 10:27:

Anybody else having a chuckle over Sparky Macsparkface citing the closure of one tyre manufacturer as evidence that Brexit has failed whilst
simultaneously accusing Facts4Eu of using "selective" data?
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7. Captain Thunderbolt , Monday, April 10, 2023, 10:36:

2. Sparky
You do realise that the United Kingdom of Great Britain was formed in 1707 right?
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Repeating the same thing over again is not going to make you right. Again, there is no such thing as joint sovereignty its either taken by force or surrendered.
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Creation of the Common Travel Area in 1922 allowed for citizens to travel freely across and between these islands with no passport requirement, along with UK’s Ireland Act of 1949 which stated that Ireland was ‘not a foreign country. So the Maastricht Treaty had no effect on movement between ROI/UK also the 1965 Anglo-Irish FTA removed barriers to trade between north and south so by the time both the ROi/UK joined the EEC it was a nonevent between the two nations. (by the way 1965 Anglo-Irish FTA was never repealed so technically even if the UK left with no agreement being reached with Brussels it could still be in effect)
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Brexit did not consider NI as there was nothing to consider until Brussels used Ireland as a pawn in negotiations.
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8. Captain Thunderbolt , Monday, April 10, 2023, 10:50:

A united Ireland by the 50th anniversary of the Belfast Agreement? No chance! (Irish Times)
So now, a full 25 years on. What chance a Border poll being button-pressed by the Northern Ireland secretary, as required by the Belfast Agreement? As demanded by Sinn Féin? None. Could you put a timescale on when? No. First, get back to the starting blocks. Get the Assembly, Executive and North-South Ministerial Council up, running and doing the business.
Ah, but the Border poll? Not a chance.
Remember cross-Border co-operation is not about customs borders or hard borders or whatever you like to call it one also has to remember the UK government suggested it back in 73 under the Sunningdale Agreement which Sinn Féin/IRA rejected it

9. Gazzablack , Monday, April 10, 2023, 11:53:

Just a reminder that the UK taxpayer was subsidising the MOST abhorrent animal cruelty, llegal in the UK, under 'farming subsidies'.
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-- 60% world's fur comes from EU countries
-- Bullfighting breeding
-- Fois Bras
-- Suckling piglet
-- Boiling pigs alive
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The EU planned to dredge UK waters and allow blast fishing in UK seas,causing the total, absolute destruction of the British sea's ecosytem

10. Sparky , Monday, April 10, 2023, 12:41:

in reply to some points above.
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Not going anywhere, love this country and the scenery that we have the benefit of. Hate the division that Brexit has brought.
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Avon motorcycle tyre production is closing in UK, production is being moved to Europe.
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The Troubles started in the 1960's when the CT was in place. The Troubles ended in the 1990's a few years after the the Maastricht Treaty and after the single market had made the border posts on the NI border redundant and they had started to be dismantled.
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Nigel Farage suggested RoI leave the EU in an interview on Irish TV station RE (search on you tube). Kate Hoey recently suggested the same.
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Brexit put NI in the centre of the negotiations to leave the EU, if the EU used NI as a weapon, Brexit allowed it and was a gift to their negotiators that should have been obvious to ours.
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In 1707 England and Scotland signed the Treaty of Union to create the "Kingdom of Great Britain". In 1801 Ireland joined to create the "United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland", the longest title of any country in the UN.

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