HC Deb 06 December 1972 vol 847 cc447-8W
Mr. Adley

asked the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if he will publish in the OFFICIAL REPORT the six industries which have achieved the greatest volume of visible exports for each year from 1962 to 1971, and the latest available figure for 1972.

1968 Sir G. Howe

Figures of exports by industry are not at present compiled annually. Industrial analyses of exports, from which the lists below are drawn, are however available from the "Input-output tables for the United Kingdom in 1963" and provisional input-output tables for 1968.

  • Motor Vehicles and tractors.
  • General chemicals, dyestuffs, fertilisers and miscellaneous chemical industries.
  • Iron and steel.
  • Wool.
  • Radio, telecommunications and electronic equipment.
  • Mineral oil refining.

  • Motor vehicles and tractors.
  • General chemicals, dyestuffs, fertilisers and miscellaneous chemical industries.
  • Iron and steel.
  • Drink.
  • Aerospace equipment.
  • Radio, telecommunications and electronic equipment.

In listing the six groups in each year, two industrial groups of a miscellaneous nature—"other non-electrical machinery" and "other metal goods"—have been ignored.