§ Mr. Maddenasked the Secretary of State for Trade, if he will publish the import totals, by category, of items subject to his Department's import surveillance scheme to the latest available date compared with available figures for imports of the same categories on an annual basis over the past five years.
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§ Mr. MeacherTo extract the information by category—that is, for each of the 70–80 headings involved—for the periods concerned would involve substantial costs. Figures of total imports by value, which correspond broadly with the range of goods concerned, are published for textiles under Division 65 and for clothing under Division 84 in Table II of the monthlyOverseas Trade Statistics of the United Kingdom, with cumulative figures for the year to date. A list of the textile and clothing goods subject to surveillance was published in the issues of Trade and Industry for 28th March 1975 and 8th August 1975.