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Aviation: Exports

Asked by Jim ShannonDemocratic Unionist PartyDepartment for Business and TradeTabled Answered 3 April 2025UIN 41421

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps he is taking to increase UK aviation exports.

Answered by Sarah Jones

DBT works with UK aerospace companies to open markets, tackle trade disputes, provide SME support, and connect business to export opportunities.

Through the Aerospace Growth Partnership and Aerospace Technology Institute, we support industry to increase supply chain productivity, competitiveness, innovation and exports. In defence, we work with industry to develop campaigns to pursue a pipeline of global opportunities. In 2024 the UK aerospace industry exported £23 billion of its production and over 5 years to 2023 on average achieved annual orders of £5.4 billion across aerospace products relating to defence.

The Industrial Strategy will set out our further support for these sectors.

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