Earl of Dalkeithasked the President of the Board of Trade if he will estimate the cost of oil imports in every form for 1969 on the basis of the monthly figures so far known to him; and what percentage change this represents over the previous year.
§ Mrs. Gwyneth DunwoodyI prefer not to venture an estimate for 1969 as a whole. The value of imports of petroleum and petroleum products in the first 10 months was £748 million, a quarter of 1 per cent. more than in the corresponding period of 1968.