Chapter 1 - Finance
                           
Table 1.14 Estimates of Total Export Deliveries & Orders: Defence Equipment & Services
This table provides an estimate of total defence export activity relating to the UK. It uses data on additional aerospace equipment and services from a survey undertaken by the Society of British Aerospace Companies. Aerospace services include training, consultancy and project support related to the export activity. The second part of the table provides data on identified export orders of defence equipment and services. This illustrates the relationship between export orders and actual export deliveries. These estimates have been subject to a variety of revisons and methodological updates in recent years including changes to the internationally agreed tariff codes used for recording goods exports. These changes are described in DASA Defence Statistics Bulletin No.8.

The data in this table are outside the scope of National Statistics because they do not meet all of the high professional quality assurance standards set out in the National Statistics Code of Practice.
Current Prices (£ million)
  1995 1997   2001 2002   2003 2004 2005   2006 2007
Estimated Total Export Deliveries:
Equipment & Services		 4 723 6 684   4 216 4 120   4 545 5 162 4 527 || 4 697 5 474
Of which:                        
                         
Identified Defence Equipment Exports 2 076 3 359   1 533 942   992 1 391 1 391 || 1 358 2 070
                         
Estimates of Additional Aerospace Equipment and Services 2 647 3 325   2 683 3 178   3 553 3 771 3 136   3 339 3 404
                       
Current Prices (£ million)
  1995 1997   2001 2002   2003 2004 2005   2006 2007
Identified Export Orders for Defence
Equipment and Services1		 4 970 5 540   4 160 5 041   4 882 4 546 3 989   5 527 9 6512
                         
Split by Equipment Type:                        
                         
Air Sector 3 456 3 193   3 245 3 553   3 526 3 199 2 491   4 133 7 525
Land Sector 535 656   341 509   303 475 584   670 762
Sea Sector 71 368   50 464   252 209 369   280 1 017
Not Specified 908 1 323   524 515   801 663 546   444 347
Source: UKTI Defence and Security Organisation
 
1. Figures for export orders are taken from the UKTI DSO survey of known Defence Contractors.
2. The large increase in the 2007 export orders figures can be attributed to a large order from Saudi Arabia for Typhoon aircraft, (valued initially at £4.4 billion) and orders from Oman and Trinidad and Tobago for offshore patrol vessels.