You asked
Please provide annual data showing the total number of UK residents travelling overseas per country of destination and per year from 2000 up until the most updated accumulated dataset for 2018.
We said
The data you have requested on UK residents travelling overseas by country of visit from 2000 to 2018 can be obtained via the Office for National Statistics website.
The quarterly figures for the first three quarters of 2018 can be found via the following link. The figures for the final quarter of 2018 have not yet been published:
See table 21
Annual figures for the years 2010 to 2017 can be found via the following link:
See the links for "2013 to 2017" (table 3.10), and "2010 to 2014" (table 3.10)
Data for earlier years can be found on the ONS archive website. You can find the editions for the years 1999 to 2009 via the following link:
See table 3.09
As this information is already available to you via this route, we consider that s.21(1) applies to this request and the information does not have to be supplied under the terms of the Freedom of Information Act. S.21(1) is an absolute exemption and no consideration of the public interest test needs to be applied. Further enquiries can be made to the customer services team of Social Surveys Division: socialsurveys@ons.gov.uk.