§ Mr. Austin Mitchellasked the Secretary of State for Industry (1) whether he will publish in the Official Report a table showing the current level of manufacturing capacity and the level each year since 1970, based on 1970=100, the corresponding level of output as a percentage of capacity, and his estimate of the amount by 468W which output could be increased in 1982 and 1983 if a market could be found for everything that industry could produce;
(2) whether he will publish a table in the Official Report showing the changes in manufacturing capacity since May 1979, broken down into minimum list headings.
§ Mr. MacGregorThe information requested is not available. Some indication of the extent of the under-utilisation of manufacturing capacity is given by the published analyses of the responses to the survey by the Confederation of British Industry on industrial trends, copies of which are available in the Library.