§ Mr. Ellis Smithasked the President of the Board of Trade if he will set out in tabular form the change in industrial production and in the engineering industry in 1948, 1958, 1959, and 1960.
§ Mr. MaudlingThe table below sets out the United Kingdom Index of Industrial Production for all industries (Orders II to XVIII of the Standard Industrial Classification (1958)) and for the engineering and allied industries (Orders VI to IX of the Standard Industrial Classification (1958)) in the years 1948, 1958, 1959 and in the first 9 months of 1959 and 1960.
1954 = 100 — All Industries Engineering and Allied Industries 1948 79 74 1958 106 112 1959 113 120 1959 first 9 months 110 116 1960 first 9 months 119 127
§ Mr. Ellis Smithasked the President of the Board of Trade if he will set out in tabular form figures of the volume of output, numbers employed, and output per man hour in industry generally and in the engineering industry in particular for 1913, 1938, 1950, 1959, or in the latest available year.
§ Mr. MaudlingThere is no official index of the volume of industrial production in the United Kingdom for all industry or for the engineering industries over the whole period 1913 to 1959, but I am writing to the hon. Member about certain information which is available from non-official sources.