HC Deb 13 December 1967 vol 756 cc157-8W
110. Sir C. Osborne

asked the President of the Board of Trade if he will give full details of the further measures

EXPORTS OF GOODS AND SERVICES AS A PERCENTAGE OF GROSS NATIONAL PRODUCT AT CURRENT MARKET PRICES
Year
Country 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966
United Kingdom … … … 19 19 18 18 18
United States … … … 5 5 5 5 5
Canada … … … 20 20 21 21 n.a.
France … … … 14 14 14 14 15
German Federal Republic … … … 19 19 20 20 21
Italy … … … 15 15 16 17 18
Belgium … … … 34 34 36 36 36
Netherlands … … … 47 46 45 45 44
Sweden … … … 25 25 24 24 24
Japan … … … 10 10 10 11 12
n.a.=not available.
Note: The figures include the import content of exports. Excluding this, the proportion for the United Kingdom was 15 per cent. in 1963.
Sources: United Kingdom: returns made to the United Nations and O.E.C.D.
Other countries: 1962-63, O.E.C.D. National Accounts Statistics 1956–65, Tables 1 and 11 for each country.
1964–66, U.N. Monthly Bulletin of Statistics, November, 1967, Table 62.
required to ensure that enough of the expansion obtained from devaluation goes into exports; and why he gave this information in a Press release on his return from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development meeting in Paris and before he made a statement in Parliament.

Mr. Crosland:

I presume the hon. Member is referring to a Press release on the speech which I made to the Ministerial Meeting of the O.E.C.D. on 30th November. Nothing was said in this speech which I and other Ministers had not previously said in Parliament.