§ Mr. Nicholas Winterton(Macclesfield): asked the Secretary of State for Trade how much consumer demand for textiles and clothing products has risen or fallen in the second quarter of 1980 compared with the same period in 1979.
§ Mr. Tebbit[pursuant to his reply, 28 November 1980): The information available relates to consumers' expenditure on clothing and is published in table 1.5 of the October issue of the Monthly Digest of Statistics, a copy of which is in the Library.