§ Mr. Hoyleasked the Secretary of State for Industry (1) what percentage by value of United Kingdom-manufactured ball bearings under MLH 749.1 was purchased by the public sector in 1980 and 1981;
(2) what percentage by value of United Kingdom-manufactured ball bearings under MLH 749.1 was purchased by the public sector for companies owned and controlled from the United Kingdom in 1980 and 1981;
(3) what percentage by value of ball bearings under MLH 749.1 purchased by the public sector was manufactured in the United Kingdom in 1980 and 1981.
§ Mr. MacGregorI regret that information on the purchase of ball bearings by the public sector is not available and could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.
Statistics of the purchases of ball bearings by the public sector as a whole are not collected. Moreover, it would be 286W impossible to identify separate purchases of ball bearings that were incorporated as built-in components of finished goods.