§ 59. Major Bruceasked the Economic Secretary to the Treasury whether his attention has been drawn to a computation of the post-war level of industrial production in the United Kingdom in comparison with that obtaining in 1938 as set out in the United Nations publication Survey of the Economic Situation and Prospect of Europe; and whether he will incorporate this index of production in the Monthly Statistical Digest.
§ The Economic Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Douglas Jay)I have seen the figures to which the hon. and gallant Gentleman refers, and they are, of course, available in the publication he mentions. We are ourselves making an official calculation, which compares the current level of production with that before the war, and will publish the results as soon as they are available.
§ Major BruceIs my hon. Friend aware that those figures make nonsense of Opposition propaganda on the subject?