Official Statistics
DBT national survey of registered businesses’ exporting behaviours, attitudes and needs 2024
Insights into UK companies’ exporting behaviour and attitudes towards exporting, including perceptions around trade barriers, drawn from fieldwork completed between March 2024 and January 2025.
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The National Survey of Registered Businesses (NSRB) gathers self-reported data from UK businesses. It:
- measures exporting behaviours, plans, and attitudes
- provides insights into perceptions around barriers to exporting
- informs the design of marketing campaigns such as ‘Made in the UK, Sold to the World’
The NSRB is an annual survey and the ninth wave of the research took place across 2024 and early 2025. The questionnaire is revised each year to reflect the Department for Business and Trade’s priorities. We track some measures consistently which helps us to look at trends over time.
This publication consists of:
- an analytical report, focusing on business respondents with an annual turnover of £500,000 or more
- a technical report, covering background and methodology information
- two spreadsheets of aggregated survey responses:
- business respondents with an annual turnover of £500,000 or more
- all business respondents
Updates to this page
Published 14 August 2025